Quotes About Authority

Have you any right

if it is contrary to the Word of God, it isn't right.

When people who are in authority in our lives make a mistake and we are there to help them fix it, that expression of kindness allows them to accept what they did as wrong instead of needing to justify or blame. It endears them to us, and the light of Jesus Christ is clearly seen in us. The next time we give our opinion, we can be sure they will give it greater consideration because we have earned the right to be heard.

I see the quintessential task of the clinician as one of coming to know him-or herself sufficiently to be able to register the experience of the other in progressively more profound and also more useful ways. This process begins with our own discomfort at finding ourselves sitting in the chair that has somehow become designated as "the authority": the person ostensibly in charge of something we haven't even begun to comprehend. —MARILYN CHARLES (in press)

If moral knowledge is impossible, then we are left with only political and legal measures to coerce people into compliance.

Secular ideologies preach liberty, but they practice tyranny.

Government policy merely followed where the universities led.

People who have the power to control the "'official' definitions of reality" are in a position to impose their own private worldview across an entire society.

The state can't seem to keep the roads paved; you think we should trust them with life-and-death decisions?

It's not just an easy one-liner. The state can't seem to keep the roads paved; you think we should trust them with life-and-death decisions?

Punishments were severe, their harshness underscored by the fact that they were written in blood. At the very least, petty thieves were beaten with whips. Those convicted of stealing property...routinely lost an army or a leg. the most serious offenders were tied to a post, where, as it was stipulated, 'his body shall be taken as a target,' with arrows.

If spanking worked, we'd only have to do it once.

My biggest Buff Orpinton rooster is on the small corral fence letting the world know he is in charge, all puffed up and sassy. There is nothing more silly than a rooster taking over the world, but every day he things he can. I wonder if we are just a little part of the world, like that rooster, and that the real things go on around us while we strut in our own yards trying to take charge of things.

One of them says, 'Why did they do it?' And the other answers, 'Because they could.' That is the only answer there ever is.

Silence is not power. It's not strength. Silence is the means by which the weak remain weak and the strong remain strong. Silence is a method of oppression.

Power has her ways. She acts on people, and people act on her.

The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.

When the people change, the palace cannot hold.

As it is written: "She cuppeth the lightning in her hand. She commandeth it to strike." from the Book of Eve, 13–17

Power has her ways. She acts on people, and people act on her. When does power exist? Only in the moment it is exercised.

They have said to you that man rules over woman as Jesus rules over the Church. But I say unto you that woman rules over man as Mary guided her infant son, with kindness and with love.

Your whole question is the mistake. Who's the serpent and who's the Holy Mother? Who's bad and who's good? Who persuaded the other one to eat the apple? Who has the power and who's powerless? All of these questions are the wrong question.

Allie says: So what, then? What is any of my power worth if I can't use it here? The voice says: Remember what Tatiana says. We don't have to ask what they'd do if they were in control. We've seen it already. It's worse than this.

Power doesn't care who uses it.