Quotes About Authority

Because power, I had learned, could be just as seductive as a warm loaf of bread.

Then he gestured with his pistol for her to

God's people need to invade the enemy's camp with all diligence, confidence, and assurance. We can take back everything Satan has stolen from us and our households. It doesn't belong to the devil. He is a thief, and we demand that he give it all back now!

When the Son of God came to the earth, Satan finally realized his ultimate defeat was a certainty. He knew his time to do his evil works was limited. Therefore, demons openly displayed their presence within people and often challenged the authority of the Lord, as well as that of His disciples.

Never accept an expert's opinion if it violates your own because the experts can change their minds.

Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view.

Significantly, it was while the final act of Italian unification was drawing closer that the First Vatican Council (on July 18, 1870) declared the doctrine of papal infallibility—increasing the pope's power in the spiritual realm at the very moment when his temporal powers were appreciably waning.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

Oh no-"she began.It shocked her to be right. Parent's were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arriety knew and enjoy saying it- knowing always they were safe and wrong.

The Holy Roman Empire was now the German Empire. And,

It will be observed that when there were not enough thrones to go around, he simply created a kingdom! Certainly, with all his faults, no one can accuse him of not having provided well for his family!

It is not the bloodletting that calls down power. It is the consenting.

Men would be as gods, if they had foreknowledge.

Certainly, I thought, Dion means to have his way. But I suppose that's what makes a king.

You are a very sharp-tongued little girl," mother said, looking up at me. I am two inches taller than she is. "Unless you learn to curb yourself, there will be no parties for you, and no party dresses." This was the speach [sic] that broke the Camel's back. I could endure no more. "I think," I said, "that I shall get married and end everything." Need I explain that I had no serious intention of taking the fatal step? But it was not deliberate mendasity[sic]. It was Despair.

She didn't like his tone, his stance, his looks, or anything about him, for that matter. But there was nothing she could do about it, and no way to fight him. He was completely in charge.

The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger.

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

When the government does the job of a parent, that's socialism.

That's right honey...It's much easier to follow the bitch than it is to follow the saint.

Science gradually yielded to propaganda, and as a result propaganda tended more and more to represent itself as science."4

Money: power at its most liquid.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert; but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact. —Thomas Sowell, American economist

having a Ph.D. and working in a university is neither necessary nor certainly sufficient to provide one with unquestionable authority, no matter what the subject.