Quotes About Authority

There is no power in your name or my name, but there is awesome power in the name of Jesus because of everything he represents.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

You have the power to let power go

Every revolution begins with the power of an idea and ends when clinging to power is the only idea left.

I'm a power fanatic. I like to own things, and have them be mine. Acting doesn't belong to you, if you're not the writer or the director.

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

People like Elizabeth Dole have given too much power to the special interests.

An actor has power, and their power is very simple: it's the power to say no.

A 'living constitution' is a dead constitution, because it does not do the one and only thing a written constitution is supposed to do: provide parameters around the power of officials.

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.

For the weak who seek power it'll bring, infallible the power, knowledge is king.

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

Every revolution by force only puts more violent means of enslavement into the hands of the persons in power.

There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.