Quotes About Authority

Doesn't matter who's in the White House, the truth about our government, any government for that matter, is that protecting its citizens is never its first priority. Its first priority is protecting itself.

the truth about our government, any government for that matter, is that protecting its citizens is never its first priority. Its first priority is protecting itself.

The law wasn't perfect, but anytime those who had the power to twist it did so, it grew more grotesque.

There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command and that is the will to obey.

They knew bullshit, and they knew about the ruling class; dying for a ruling class cause was almost always bullshit.

Their leader wore a Nazi helmet and had renamed himself Heimlich in honor of the man who ran the SS, not knowing he'd confused the Heimlich maneuver for rescuing choke victims and Heinrich Himmler.

A Squadron Commander who can't take his best friend out and shoot him can't Command worth s*#t" -Steep Turner

That the possession of great power necessarily implies great responsibility.

Our blind trust in the system is the product of ignorance and magical thinking,

Out popped Paul Duffy, in plain clothes except for a state police windbreaker and a badge clipped to his belt. He looked at me - I think by now I had dropped the bat to my side, at least, though I must have looked ridiculous anyway - and he raised his eyebrows. 'Get back in the house, Babe Ruth.

But it is hard to say no to my brother, whose invitations feel like commands. He says You wanna play golf? with the same presumption that a rich man says to his driver Will you bring the car around?

Today there is virtually a consensus... that Jesus came on the scene with an unheard of authority, with the claim of the authority to stand in God's place and speak to us and bring us to salvation. With regard to Jesus there are only two possible modes of behavior: either to believe that in him God encounters us or to nail him to the cross as a blasphemer. Tertium non datur. [There is no third way.]2

Thomas's procedure, then, may be summarized in three steps: (1) Fulfilled prophecies and miracles make it credible that the Scriptures taken together as a whole are a revelation from God. (2) As a revelation from God, Scripture is absolutely authoritative. (3) Therefore, those doctrines taught by Scripture that are neither demonstrably provable nor empirically evident may be accepted by faith on the authority of Scripture.

In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but in his face. —DIOGENES THE CYNIC

The campus was Disney-fascist, a relentlessly upbeat place to wither and die.

Alas, criticism has always been what human beings, especially leaders, most hate to hear.

The law told people what to do but gave them no power to do it. It was given to reveal sin, not to be a savior.

the greatest tyrants over women are women.

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

all you have to do is kill every citizen at birth and then, by God, you're left with the perfect ?

Hob is not a plaything or a human toy.

The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice.

A caricature of this result," Butterfield adds, "is to be seen in a popular view that is still not quite eradicated: the view that the Middle Ages represented a period of darkness when man was kept tongue-tied by authority—a period against which the Renaissance was the reaction and the Reformation the great rebellion."14

The greedy and the power-hungry will always look for ways to break the rules, or twist them to their advantage.