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Quotes About Authority

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
~ Gerrit Smith
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
~ John Stuart Mill
You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God.
~ Alec Baldwin
Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.
~ Mark Twain
Our rights come from nature and God, not government.
~ Paul Ryan
Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.
~ Bernie Siegel
Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.
~ Brian Helgeland
If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.
~ T. S. Eliot
In my ministry, I teach my disciples, "Power first, then the Word. Go in and prophesy first, or demonstrate the power of God first in some way."
~ Todd Bentley
God's Word is its own best argument.
~ Vance Havner
To you your father should be as a god.
~ William Shakespeare
True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God's rule to serve people in God's way.
~ Leighton Ford
The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.
~ Ludwig Borne
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Ezekiel says this, though, he's - God said to the prophet, he said I'm going to cause you to sit where they've sat.
~ Paula White
We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.
~ Seneca the Younger
We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.
~ Ed Koch
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
~ George Gillespie
It is sort of a disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.
~ George Soros
To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority.
~ Graham Kendrick
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
~ John Tillotson
Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.
~ Josh McDowell
There's nothing more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a believer with the Word of God in their mouth.
~ Joyce Meyer