Quotes About Authority

the higher one rises in an organization, the more likely it is that people will tell you you're right. People will agree with powerful leaders as a strategy of ingratiation, as nothing is as flattering as others' telling you how right and how smart you are.

Schoorman asked

One of the early pieces of advice I had as a General Authority was that "we ought to have great music in the Church and more of it, coupled with great speaking in the Church and less of it.

Laws disarming honest citizens proclaim that the government is the master, not the servant, of the people.

Rehnquist was just reflecting his shifting role, from outsider to the institutional embodiment of the Court.

But Trump could never process any interest except his own, and he regarded all executive branch employees as working for him personally.

When the state itself is held to the same moral standards as everyone else, it dies. And that's a wonderful thing.

People who can't imagine order without imposition always end up favoring power over liberty.

Without anarchy, there would be chaos.

Now, I'm not saying that we don't need rules in society. But the question of who makes the rules and on what basis becomes supremely important. Will the rule-making flow from the matrix of voluntary exchange based on the ethic of serving others through private enterprise? Or will the rules be made and enforced by people wearing guns and bulletproof vests with a license to shock or kill based on minor annoyances?

We really don't get all the government we pay for, and thank goodness. Lord protect us on the day that we do.

The cost of government control is human liberty, prosperity, and dignity.

The purpose of schools in America is not for people to learn anything, it's to make them obedient, trained animals for a more efficient work force.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

And please, keep your voices down!" she yells. Obviously, Miri is exempt from the rules.

You back up princess. This isn't a job for you. It is if you keep screwing up! I pull the sword out of his hand.

She got mad and sent me to bed with one supper instead of the usual three.

As my eldest could tell you, tussling with the Dwarf Police Squad is no picnic.

Headmistress Flora (the formerly wicked stepmother) is handing over the reins to a new leader:

She's no ordinary fairy godmother. You all must know that. She runs this kingdom. She controls the royal court. She ensures her continued influence by molding all of you to do her bidding. And when you don't…

You all got F's!" Professor Sebastian thunders, getting wound up again.

What many of us embraced as solid and certain seems condescending and exclusive to them. Values that felt trustworthy to some of us—authority, tradition, reason, logic, absolute truth—read like easily dismantled propaganda to postmoderns. Authority—parents, church leaders, government—has failed the next generation in profound ways.

Why does so much Christianity smack of power and aggression when Jesus was humble and subversive?

When church is less like a family and more like an enterprise, its leaders act less like pastors and more like commanders. This puts everyone in danger—the leaders and the people. Spiritual abuse thrives where pastors are untouchable and people are commodities. No one intends this, but absolute power corrupts in every human environment.