Quotes About Authority

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.

We are [God's] by creation, and again by redemption. He has every right to tell me what to do with my mind and body. I have. I right to do whatever I want with my body.

The forbidden Book says when there's no authority "every man does what is right in his own eyes.

The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. "Life and death is in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21).

Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one's own individuality is power in the hands of a fool.

When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right." There was a pin-drop silence.

Young dreams may be wild ones, but they are never corrected by ridiculing them. They must be steered by a loving voice that has earned the right to be heard, not one enforced by means of power. This is a very difficult lesson for parents to learn. And as cultures lose their restraining power, there will be greater need for mutual love and respect between parents and children if a relationship of trust is to be built, rather than banking on authority because of position.

Hitler wouldn't answer to anybody, not even God. He didn't dialogue. His was a monologue. Dialogue involves reason; it requires a willingness to admit there's another opinion. To him, there was no other viewpoint but his.

Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things; in short, if anything increases the authority and power of the flesh over the Spirit, then that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself.

Once humanity violated that single rule and took charge, however, hundreds of laws had to be passed, because each injunction could die the death of a thousand qualifications through constant exceptions to the rule.

One must be profoundly responsible when categorically presenting an absolute, so let me put it this way. The chances are that if you marry somebody in violation of you parents' will, you are playing a high stakes game as you enter the future. Any time you violate an authority that has been put by God, you need to be twice as sure you are doing the right thing.

Everything He said and did sustains that claim, and contrarily, nothing He said or did challenges that claim.

The moral law will always stand over and above and against a heart that seeks to be its own guide. One

They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was.

I'll tell you, said Beatty, smiling at his cards. That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break eggs at the smaller end.

My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous. Men like that always are.

custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior; official censors, judges, and executors.

If you need to find out the kindling point of paper (451° F), don't call an academic, call the fire department.

I bet it's the eleventh Commandment," murmured the priest, eyes down. "What would the eleventh Commandment be?" asked Doone, scowling. "Why not: 'THOU SHALT SHUT UP AND LISTEN'" said the priest. "Ssh.

Walking, eh?' said the officer. 'Just walking?' I nodded and waited for the obvious truth to sink in. 'Well,' said the officer, 'don't do it again!' And the police car drove away.

They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.

delinquents.

this and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.