Quotes About Authority

If you want one last picture of authority and vulnerability together, laughter will do the trick. To laugh, to really laugh out loud, is to be vulnerable, taken beyond ourselves, overcome by surprise and gratitude. And to really laugh may be the last, best kind of authority—the capacity to see the meaning of the whole story and discover that our final act, our only enduring responsibility in that story, is simply celebration, delight and worship.

I'm not going to be pushed around by some Oswald Mosley wannabe with delusions of grandeur.

Contrary to popular belief, not everyone is entitled to their opinion. If you don't know the facts, your opinion doesn't count.

When you try to exercise authority within a department that is outside your core competencies, you will hinder everything and everyone under your watch. If you fail to distinguish between authority and competence, you will exert your influence in ways that damage projects and people. To put it bluntly, there are things you are responsible for that you should keep your nose out of.

Any admonition that declares that we must rule should be checked with the immediate reminder that Christ did not. It is the cross—not the boardroom, not the Oval Office, and not the box office—that is the absolute center of the Kingdom of God.

Every leader has authority over arenas in which he has little or no competence. When we exert our authority in an area where we lack competence, we can derail projects and demotivate those who have the skills we lack.

Do you think God can be trusted? Or do yo think you need to take things into your own hands?

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

You're not an M.P., you're a gastronomic pimp.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

He was a good emperor. I won't say he is perfect, because he wasn't; no, my friends, no man is perfect and an emperor less than anybody, because he holds power in his hands, and power is as dangerous as an animal not fully tamed, dangerous as acid, sweet and fatal as poisoned honey.

Three days after that Emperor Ferret signed an insane decree: every man who wished to stay at court must be castrated. He was mad, no doubt of it; but the men who preferred mutilation to leaving the court were madder.

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

Después de haber comido entrambos doce nécoras, alguien dijo a Pilatos: -¿Y qué hacemos ahora? Él vaciló un instante y respondía (educado, distante, indiferente): -Chico, tú haz lo que quieras: Yo me lavo las manos.

The various systems of accentuation and vocalization introduced into the text of the Bible by the Masoretes had started to develop by about the sixth or seventh century CE. As is well known, from the the tenth century one such system eventually imposed its authority over the others, spreading from Tiberias to the entire Jewish world.

Why do you do up your hair in those tortured plaits, now, Melanie? Why? Because, she said. You know that's no answer. You're spoiling your pretty looks, pet. Come here. She did not move. He ground out his cigarette on the window-ledge and laughed. Come here, he said again, softly. So she went.

But one story in this book, 'How a Husband Weaned His Wife from Fairy Tales', shows just how much fairy stories could change a woman's desires, and how much a man might fear that change, would go to any lenghts to keep her from pleasure, as if pleasure itself threatened his authority. Which, of course, it did. It still does.

One of Sade's cruellest lessons is that tyranny is implicit in all privilege. My freedom makes you more unfree, if it does not acknowledge your freedom, also.

But the Countess herself is indifferent to her own weird authority. She believes that, by ignoring it, she can abnegate it. More than anything, she would like to be human; but she does not know if that is possible. The Tarot always shows the same configuration: always she turns up La Papesse, Le Mort, Le Tour Abolie, wisdom, death, dissolution.

Ezra Diagos is correct when he says men's words do not have the authority of HaShem's.

Listen to the world and you'd think there are many ways to God', he says. 'But Jesus himself said, "I am the way, and no man comes to the Father but by me". So it doesn't matter what Oprah or Dr. Phil or Deepak Chopra says. They don't have the keys to Heaven. Only Jesus holds the keys to life and death, and if he says he's the way, then he is.

Yet the Law of Moses commanded me to respect and obey that tyrant, and Solomon promised a blessing for those who honored their parents.

We should question our beliefs continually—not God Himself, not Christ our Lord, but what other men tell us about God and Christ. Otherwise we are little more than the frozen statues you see in so many churches.

And mind you," said Dr. Ford, "I'm only doing this to please your mother and Lord Stoke. If you were my child I'd let you fester and gangrene, and serve you right. Did I or did I not tell you not to go near Stokey Hole?