Quotes About Authority

If you destroy the presidency and make it an errand boy for Congress, we're going to be a much weaker and more divided nation.

If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party.

If an adult uses violence on a child, the child will naturally assume that he too, has the right to use it on one smaller or weaker.

Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her. No power on earth can govern a human being, however feeble, who withholds his or her consent.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice - the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness.

In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable - showing weakness.

Wenger simply doesn't like those who show a weakness. With him you generally feel as if you were in the army. It's only in public that he may appear to be some sort of man of liberal views. In reality, his credo is natural selection.

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

The General Assembly is a unique organ. It's the most representative organ of the United Nations, where all 193 Member States are present. Each has one vote regardless of its size, power, or wealth. That gives the body a huge authority.

Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way I view her energy, seeing her on TV, is a very calm, quiet energy. You need, in order to gain control, higher energy than your dog.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

You don't need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they're in power.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of your back that when you, someone crosses you, pisses you off, road rage, I think just the slight badge and the little moving away of the jacket and not losing eye contact does amazing things.

Carrying an automatic weapon in a Third World country beyond the easy reach of higher authority? The job description is like a bug light to borderline personalities.

You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively.

We've got to know the Word of God. That is our absolute stability. That is our offensive weapon against the kingdom of darkness.

If you ask me my opinion, if you're a rapper in this game, you oughta have a license to be able to carry a weapon.

Having a weapon like that means you're pretty much in control of events. Nobody's going to argue with a flaming sword.

If FBI agents can't be trusted to wiretap within the law, why trust them to carry weapons or make arrests?