Quotes About Authority

It is one thing to believe in God's power, it is quite another to live your life in obedient response to an all-powerful God.

Sea como sea, cuando hay un líder autoritario en la cima de la pirámide, lo más probable es que las personas en las capas inferiores tengan menor capacidad para tomar decisiones oportunas, basándose en sus instintos. Preferirán, en cambio, remitir las cosas al nivel superior, con lo cual reducen las posibilidades de equivocarse y/o de excederse respecto a sus funciones asignadas.

The child who knows his parents have sturdy end stops will not have to push and test to find the limits and boundaries.

It doesn't matter what kinds of limits or consequences parents establish. All that matters is that parents back their words up with action and hold fast.

Today's parents tend to be uncomfortable with their authority.

Practice telling your child your expectations and wishes in statements that declare rather than ask.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

A leader is someone who can effectively exercise his influence on people that he can make them believe something he wants them to believe.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Anger is a serious issue for many fathers because a child's disobedience is seen as an affront to the father's authority and honor. But sinful displays of anger only undermine a father's authority, tempting a child to hold the father in disdain and contempt.

Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.

Our final task', he wrote, 'might be to select those variables which can be deliberately controlled or managed by central authority in the kind of system in which we actually live.

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Power I defined as personal influence of an effective sort on governmental action.

German professors of that time were like God, only more frightening.

When scriptures are used as the Lord has caused them to be recorded, they have intrinsic power that is not communicated when paraphrased.

A heresia e a blasfêmia persistiam como disfarces pomposos para oprimir a liberdade da palavra, a qual sempre escolhe assuntos que provocam implicitamente nos opressores um mal-estar secreto.

Os casais que concebem filhos que não desejam refletem os casais que querem filhos mas não podem ter. O problema destes últimos tem sido resolvido pelos ginecologistas com menor alarde e esforço. As pessoas autoritárias fazem mais objeções ao fato de as outras fazerem o que elas acham que não deve ser feito, ao invés de procurar realizar o que acham que devem.

Washington was well aware that in a representative government, a government of laws not of men, separating the man from the title was essential.

Hume decreed that "Liberty is the perfection of society," but believed equally that "authority must be acknowledged as essential to its [freedom's] very existence.

If private companies or public officials think that one policy produces better outcomes, they can greatly influence the outcome by choosing it as the default.

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

By seeing it allowed to their officers, they will not be convinced that it is taken from them for their good; and by receiving nothing in its place, they will not believe that it is done in kindness. On the contrary, many of them look upon the change as a new instrument of tyranny.

Fundamentalists didn't try to disprove science. They didn't argue against it. They pronounced against it! It was the equivalent of a parent clinching an argument with a child by shouting: 'because I say so'. That's what fundamentalist religion does. It refutes not by evidence but by authority. Why is Darwin wrong? Because the Bible says so! But they did more than pontificate. They tried to ban science itself. That's