Quotes About Authority

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think that he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God.

Love and lordship hate companions

If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law

Sophie McClellen," Clay said so grimly, it got her undivided attention. "Yes, Clay?" She was surprised she had such an obedient tone at her disposal. "If you can't keep your mouth shut, what's say we talk about what you were doing up here when I told you to stay in the house and rest!" He'd started out whispering, but by the time he was done, he'd built to a roar.

It takes a particular type of human being to want to be a hack. Half of their waking hours they are prisoners themselves, inmates by their own free will. Uneducated and underpaid, the only thing they have going for them is feeling superior to the helpless prisoners. Here, at last, are men they can look down upon because they have them in their power. If

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

The thing to keep in mind is that laws are framed by those who happen to be in power and for the purpose of keeping them in power. That goes for the U.S.A as well as for Russia or any other country in the world.

God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

The church is the hands and feet of Jesus, and it is our duty to continue the mandate to protect the innocent, while turning perpetrators in to the proper authorities.

A prince, in the turn of a moment and a few words, was now a king.

How can you be sure?" "I'm a doctor, Jenna. And a scientist." "Does that make you an authority on everything? What about a soul, Father? When you were so busy implanting all your neural chips, did you think about that? Did you snip my soul from my old body, too? Where did you put it? Show me! Where? Where in all this groundbreaking technology did you insert my soul?

There was only one thing that someone with great power wanted. More of it

The Komizar rages with enough venom to make your general look like a whimpering kitten.

He could silence the devil with a whisper.

Are we still in Morrighan?" I asked. He half smiled, half grunted. "You don't know your own country's borders? How very royal.

The problem is, some people think they're above the law. There are plenty of good reasons why we have so much regulation.

We are the first family, and every bird that flies overhead, every breath that is taken, every drop of water that falls, it all belongs to us. We make the laws here. We own whatever you can see. Never let one handful of soil slip through your fingers, or you will lose it all.

No one disobeyed his commands. He could silence the devil with a whisper.