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Quotes About Authority

Faith is a theological virtue that inclines the mind under the influence of the will and grace to yield firm assent to revealed truths because of the authority of God.
~ Unknown
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
~ George Fox
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
~ George Orwell
The family is the American fascism.
~ Paul Goodman
I may be the baby of the family, but that doesn't mean I don't get to boss people around.
~ Tamar Braxton
Family - see Fascist State.
~ Benito Mussolini
Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom
~ Bill Johnson
My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.
~ Maya Angelou
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
~ Michel Montaigne
If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?
~ Mary Astell
Donald Trump has a pre-modern monarchic family structure. His business is a monarchy with family members all around. His administration is a monarchy with family members all around.
~ David Brooks
If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.
~ Edith Konecky
It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.
~ George Orwell
Well, I'm just about at the elevator up to the family quarters. But bear with me for just a minute more as I confirm who I am . It's obvious: I'm the president of the United States of America!
~ Herman Cain
Aristocracy is kept up by family tyranny and injustice.
~ Thomas Paine
In my family, if I talk back to my dad, I get in trouble.
~ Joel Courtney
What we need is someone to abolish the House Of Lords, get rid of the Royal Family.
~ John Boorman
Today while the titular head of the family may still be the father everyone knows that he is little more than chairman at most of the entertainment committee.
~ Ashley Montagu
Honor your father and your mother.
~ Bible
Let's face it there's lots of spoiled kids out there . . . because you can't spank Grandma.
~ Unknown
I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.
~ Unknown
Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
~ Janet E. Morris
My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.
~ Cathy O'Neil
The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison