Quotes About Authority

If we had the right civilian leadership, we would have responsive military leadership. But I ask you, how can you lead somebody when you don't know where you are going?

Time comes in every good officer's life when he has to stalk the hallowed halls of the five-sided circus,

McNamara has broken the unofficial contract between civilian leaders and military officers that the military will obey the civilians without question in return for the civilian leadership not squandering military lives.

The whole scene seemed lit by a thousand dusty, forty-watt lightbulbs. He had to make a move. 'I need to get to my officer,' he said. Palmer didn't appear to be listening. Thorne took a step forwards, and in a second the gun was levelled at him. 'No!' Palmer shouted. Thorne was genuinely surprised. 'What are you playing at, Martin?' Palmer said nothing.

None of it's about what God wants, it's just about men wanting to run everything and girls like me knowing their place. Behaving PROPERLY.

In boardrooms and bedchambers, in lecture halls and marketplaces, God is hardly seen as a player let alone the author, the one who holds in His hand each king's heart and directs it like a watercourse (Proverbs

The church has not been given authority to make commandments; it is the duty of the church to obey the commandments already made. It is not the prerogative nor the privilege of any church to modify, minimize or in any way obscure . . . any commandment, of Jesus Christ.8

To tell a story is to take power over it.

We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He patents His name.

apparently will be the most attractive, commanding, winsome presence ever to command the world stage. He is alluded to by 33 different appellations in the Old Testament and 13 in the New Testament.

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria was not used to feeling intimidated. It was rather his job in life to intimidate others.

Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown," Ajay whispered.

It is not the ink and the paper that matter, but the hand that holds the pen.

doma touží po moci a v zahrani?í po uznání.

Putin je milosrdný autokrat. Nechce vás zabít - pokud ho k tomu nedonutíte.

An ambitious judge is a dangerous animal.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

The government has incredible powers at its disposal, and when it abuses those powers, someone has to stand up.

A man with a rifle is a citizen; a man without one is merely a subject.

I'd rather have wordly power than worldly power.

ALL THE PRESIDENT'S YES-MEN—AND THEIR MASCARA!)

Throughout U.S. history—whether it was a matter of controlling indigenous peoples across Western lands that white settlers wanted to occupy, black populations deemed unruly, or laborers not complying with the economic usurpation of a white overclass—the weaponry of military and local policing have often comingled.

The power of "the state" emanates both from the U.S. nation and also through the relations by which it is embedded in global, transnational networks of power.

The power to execute invests a near absolute power in the state. As Robert Meeropol has suggested, the granting of such absolute power most surely tends to corrupt, and especially to corrupt democracy. Meeropol's own parents, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were executed in 1953 when he was six years old.