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Quotes About Authority

Without discipline, there is no Marine Corp.
~ R. Lee Ermey
The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Aces are larger than life and greater than mountains.
~ Mike Caro
To live coram Deo is to live one's entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
~ R. C. Sproul
Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.
~ Tom Hayden
When freedom is outlawed, only outlaws will be free.
~ Tom Robbins
Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.
~ Thomas Jefferson
For Aboriginal leaders, the social and moral obligation that comes with community leadership is life-long. Those who lead, who have authority, must care for and look after those who come behind.
~ Patrick Dodson
Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.
~ Colin Fletcher
I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.
~ Massad Ayoob
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.
~ A. J. P. Taylor
The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
~ Benjamin Franklin
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
~ Cyril Connolly
A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.
~ Matt Groening
I write because I have authority from life to do so.
~ Bessie Head
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
~ Leon Kass
If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.
~ Mario Puzo
England is no longer controlled by Britons, we are under the invisible Jewish dictatorship, a dictatorship that can be felt in every sphere of life
~ Nesta Helen Webster
I've been a leader practically my whole life. I don't know what it is to follow.
~ Eli Manning
God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.
~ Greg L. Bahnsen
God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.
~ Max Lucado
Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
~ Myriam Miedzian
I like my father being the boss in my life
~ Shreya Ghoshal