Quotes About Authority

Each man or woman who passed, she knew their history and would tell it to me, for she said that you must understand people if you would rule them.

you may have what girls you like in the field, but you will bring none home, for only I will hold sway in your halls.

You do not command me. The silence went on and on, painful and breathless, like a singer overreaching to finish a phrase. Then,

I will tell them nothing." The answer came with no hesitation, clear and crisp. "It is not for them to say what I will do.

You have been tame your whole life, and now you will be sorry. Yes Father, yes Father—see what it gets you.

Gods pretend to be parents, but they are children, clapping their hands and shouting for more.

they won't fear you as they fear the rest of us.

This, out of all of it, was perhaps the strangest: that he was their commander now. He would be expected to know them all, their names and armor and stories. He no longer belongs to me alone.

Navy: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. Civilian: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to South to avoid a collision. Navy: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert your course. Civilian: No, I say again, divert your course. Navy: This is the aircraft carrier Enterprise. We are a large warship of the US Navy. Divert your course now!! Civilian: This is a lighthouse. Your call." Canadian naval radio conversation38

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

the mafia kills in the way a state does; it does not murder, it executes.

For this he created a new intelligence force, answerable only to him: the Directorate of National Intelligence (DINA).

Too goddam many lawyers mixed up in this. Run the sonsobitches out. If they resists shoot 'em, that's what I says to the Governor, but they're all these sonsobitches a lawyers fussin' everythin' up all the time with warrants and habeas corpus and longwinded rigmarole. My ass to habeas corpus.

The old Romans knew better; to keep people quiet they filled their bellies.

a nation in which the centralized power and the separate communities work only to nullify each other.

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

What is distinctive and engaging about Jesus is not the novel things he says but the way he says things. He is creative not so much because he says things that are completely new but because he speaks with such authority.

Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce.

Think of consecration as aligning and enforcing—aligning yourself with Jesus and all the laws of his kingdom, then enforcing his rule and those laws over the matter in question.

You enforce by proclaiming what is true over the subject.

requiring all things to recognize and yield to that authority, announcing that the authority of Jesus Christ is now in effect here.

The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God

When the Word of God has spoken clearly and plainly, the unbelief of men, the reasonings of the natural mind and the wisdom of the world can be safely disregarded.