Quotes About Authority

When we vest our personal opinions with the trappings of religion, we make religion the servant of our politics.

At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

Blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives.

Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.

The Jews didn't like him because he threatened their religion. He was saying things that didn't go with the order.

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

Without God all things are permitted.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.

There was no known cure for a Catholic education.

I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

The Bible, the whole Bible, and nothing but the Bible is the religion of Christ's church.

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.