Quotes About Authority

It is legal because I wish it.

I am the state.

The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

claimed that God by virtue of His absolute power

Hence it was necessary that Christ, as our Mediator, should be prophet, priest, and king. As Prophet He represents God with man; as Priest He represents man in the presence of God, and as King

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force...

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

James believed that scientific inquiry, like any other form of inquiry, is an activity inspired and informed by our tastes, values, and hopes. But this does not, in his view, confer any special authority on the conclusions it reaches. On the contrary: it obligates us to regard those conclusions as provisional and partial, since it was for provisional and partial reasons that we undertook to find them.

Scientific and religious beliefs are important to people; but they are (usually) neither foundational premises, backing one outcome in advance against all others, nor ex post facto rationalizations, disguising personal preferences in the language of impersonal authority. They are only tools for decision making, one of the pieces people try to bundle together with other pieces, like moral teachings and selfish interests and specific information, when they need to reach a decision.

It's been said that every institution is nothing but the extended shadow of one person.

Women have been called queens a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.

Sometimes people with cancer or other terminal illnesses have such a hard time saying "no" to an authoritative figure in their life, that on an unconscious level they will create a major dis-ease to say "no" for them.

I am at peace with everyone around me. No person, place, or thing has any power over me. I am the power and authority in my world. I choose the thoughts that recognize my own true worth. I recognize my own intuitive ability. I trust my intuition, for I am always in contact with Universal Wisdom and Truth. I always go in the right direction for me. I love and appreciate my beautiful nose!

You are the power in your world! You

Rules meant order. Without them they'd be killing each other. It began with butting in, with parking in disabled spaces, with smoking in elevators. And it ended in murder.

No. It was almost impossible to electrocute someone these days, unless you were the governor of Texas.

Maybe that's what old men are for. To make decisions that no young man can." He was watching Gamache closely. "Or should have to.

When senior officers start shooting each other, it's time to leave," said Gamache. "I'm sure it's somewhere in the regulations.

What people do for power. How they're willing to mutilate themselves, physically, intellectually, morally, for power and position.