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Quotes About Authority

18 Entonces Jesús acercándose les habló en estos términos: A mí se me ha dado toda potestad en el cielo, y en la tierra; 19 Vayan pues, e instruyan a todas las naciones en el camino de la salud, bautizándolas en el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo; 20 enseñándolas a observar todas las cosas que yo les he mandado. Y estén ciertos que yo mismo estaré continuamente con ustedes hasta la consumación de los siglos.
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
De quién es la imagen, e inscripción que tiene? Le responden: De César. 25 Les dijo entonces: Paguen pues a César lo que es de César; y a Dios lo que es de Dios.
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
22 Dichas estas palabras alentó o dirigió el aliento hacia ellos, y les dijo: Reciban el Espíritu Santo. 23 Quedan perdonados los pecados a aquellos a quienes los perdonen; y quedan retenidos, a los que se los retengan. 24
~ Don Félix Torres Amat
Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength.
~ Don King
You had to deal with a situation you did not want. Once you are defeated, you have to do what you are told.
~ Don Kladstrup
The people, they don't know what it takes sometimes to keep them safe and it's better that they don't.
~ Don Winslow
He who speaks least has the most power.
~ Don Winslow
People don't run the cartel; the cartel runs people.
~ Don Winslow
Él que menos habla es el más chingón. He who speaks least has the most power.
~ Don Winslow
Crime 101: Laws are made to be broken, with rules that are made to be followed.
~ Don Winslow
She's also ruthless - it's love me or off with your head. She's the Red Queen
~ Don Winslow
I obey the Commandments, the sensible ones. Where they dont know what theyre talking about I ignore them. I keep thinking about the story of the two old women in church listening to the priest discoursing on the dynamics of the married state. At the end of the sermon one turns to the other and says, I wish I knew as little about it as he does.
~ Donald Barthelme
Don't move," he said, in a voice that was forty percent gravel and sixty percent inert materials.
~ Donald E. Westlake
Hispanics have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Come to that, the Irish and Italians and Jews also have a long tradition of defiance against authority. Thinking it over, everybody has a long tradition of defiance against authority. (Except the Germans, of course.)
~ Donald E. Westlake
The Scriptures are called God's utterances or God's oracles (Rom 3:2).
~ Donald G. Bloesch
The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical.
~ Donald G. Smith
Leadership is action, not position.
~ Donald H. McGannon
Always call them 'Sir.' They aren't any harder to kill later!
~ Donald Hamilton
They fall short on holding the government to account, scrutinizing and authorizing the spending of public money, reviewing and refining legislation, and acting as an effective forum to debate the important issues of the day.
~ Donald J. Savoie
If the government is no longer as good as it once was in providing clear answers, the courts are now there to do so.
~ Donald J. Savoie
The law is what is read, not what is written.
~ Donald Kingsbury
Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
~ Confucius
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
~ Ieyasu Tokugawa
The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I'm afraid.
~ J. K. Rowling