Quotes About Authority

Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

It is heaven that rules.

To most people at the time it was unthinkable that religion might ever not be what it was then. However, Bryce mused, if religion in America were ever to lose its strength and authority, the result would be "the completest revolution of all." The strongest bonding in American society would have gone, and unbounded freedom would run amok and work to cause its own undoing.

In his famous novel 1984, O'Brien states frankly, "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. . . . The object of power is power.

God calls people to himself, but this call is no casual suggestion. He is so awe inspiring and his summons so commanding that only one response is appropriate—a response as total and universal as the authority of the Caller. Thus

but conformity to the will and the way of Jesus is life and freedom itself—under his authority.

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Human beings never submit to human beings

Imagine saying that the law was the antonym of crime! But perhaps everybody in "society" can go on living in self-satisfaction, thanks to just such simple concepts. They think that crime hatches where there are no policemen.

Art cannot order people around. Art dies the moment it acquires authority.

Regardless of the cause, those in charge always seemed to be seeking power and glory for themselves.

A leader pompously voices his own views without the least hesitation. Do as I say, he proclaims. Then you, as well as your family and your village and your country and the whole world too will be secure. Gesturing grandly, he roars on about how disaster will come from ignoring him. But then, as has happened time after time, his favorite prostitute gives him the cold shoulder, and this makes him cry out desperately for the abolition of her kind.

That's because he's desperate to have others believe him omnipotent. Pure stupidity! The world's not like that. You've got to bow before someone to get on. That's the only way—struggle ahead one step at a time while keeping the others back.

Mom JIMMY What if the word yes meant no? MOM Go to sleep, you have school tomorrow JIMMY No MOM Quit playing games with me JIMMY Yes

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy.

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.

We live, deaf to the land beneath us,Ten steps away no one hears our speeches,But where there's so much as half a conversationThe Kremlin's mountaineer will get his mention.

God doesn't want courageous cowards; He needs confident commanders.

The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

Jesus did not stand as a prophet and utter judgements; wherever He went the unerring directness of His presence located men.

by the effectiveness of redemption, not by impressive speech, nor by wooing and persuading, but only by the sheer unaided power of God.