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Quotes About Authority

The greater the power that deigns to serve you, the more honor it demands of you.
~ Socrates
It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it.
~ Tommy Tenney
To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He and He alone decrees.
~ R. C. Sproul
God cannot honor anything, no matter its degree of sincerity, if it is contrary to His Word.
~ Leslie Ludy
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
~ Daniel Webster
Honor is a harder master than the law.
~ Mark Twain
Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.
~ Sinclair B. Ferguson
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.
~ Moshe Katsav
The honor we receive from those that fear us, is not honor; those respects are paid to royalty and not to me.
~ Michel de Montaigne
As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Cersei Lannister: I shall wear this as a badge of honor. Robert Barathon: Wear it in silence or I'll honor you again.
~ George R. R. Martin
True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.
~ Myles Munroe
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?
~ Attila the Hun
All the gang of those who rule us Hope our quarrels never stop Helping them to split and fool us So they can remain on top.
~ Bertolt Brecht
I've not given up hope the belly-putter will be banned. The R and A and the USGA are looking at it right now.
~ Ernie Els
There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.
~ Philip Sidney
You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope
~ Bob Dylan
From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
I have gotten so many tickets. I hope I don't get my license revoked.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I feel like Galileo going before the Inquisition to explain that the Sun doesn't revolve around the Earth. I hope I have more success.
~ Ken Livingstone
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Hope is the leash of submission.
~ Raoul Vaneigem