Quotes About Authority

I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.

Old Mother God, Old Father God— they keep us trapped. And we do give up. We pull the covers over our head, and go back to sleep. Only to dream of old dragons, old alligators, old crocodiles drinking our blood. To dream of cold-eyed lawmakers saying, This is the way it's always been done. It works. It will stay this way. And you will obey.

Anyone who intrigues for power, deserves to get it!

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

Whereas Lelong's authority came from the status of ownership, Dior's came from an artist's inner certainty that his work was good.

Innocence and guilt are legal concepts which have little relevance to the political world,

Power is transient. Power can flow from one person to another. The most powerful person in a room isn't the wealthiest or the one with the most connections. It's the person who believes the strongest, the one who has the most confidence. And, sometimes, it's the person who can make everyone else feel like less of themselves.

Any of those priests even sniff at you wrong, you fuck them over until they see Jesus.

There's never honor where there's power.

Similarly, although patterns of centralized national authority differed radically among the European nations, the general trend in each of these areas was toward greater concentration of political power pointing toward the modern nation-state.

So it was that earnest searching for authentic ancient texts—Latin and Greek, pagan and Christian—was an ongoing European preoccupation for several generations before Protestants deployed the authority of another ancient text, the Bible, as a justification for rejecting traditional Catholic deference to the papacy.

A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all."[77]

After the eleventh century, the title papa was used exclusively for the bishop of Rome.

One would think the governments of these countries would know better, but they are just as asinine as all governments throughout history. Maybe

Tell them - to cut off his hands and nail them to the Senate door. I told the old fool I'd do it if he ever crossed me again. Nobody can possibly say that I don't keep my word.

The only God-ordained fear is the fear of God, and if we fear Him, we don't have to fear anyone or anything else.

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.

that is how our enemy operates. He prowls around like a roaring lion. But the important word is like. He's an imposter. Jesus is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. And when He roars, everything is shaken. All authority under heaven and on earth is His. And we are His children. Why don't we live like it, love like it, give like it, serve like it, and pray like it?

God couldn't care less about protocol. If He did, Jesus would have chosen the Pharisees as His disciples. But that isn't who Jesus honored.

The tongue has the power of life and death.13 It's not some abracadabra incantation, but sometimes you have to say it like you believe it. Jesus literally spoke to the wind and the waves, right?

Generals are selected for three stars by being uniquely qualified for a specific three-star position.