Quotes About Authority

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

I think these large bureaucratic institutions are created in some way explicitly to inoculate anyone from actual responsibility, to create a much more diffuse and blameless kind of society.

An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth.

I would love to do an unauthorized biography about Congress. It's like a secret society up there.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

By getting the Word deep into your spirit and speaking it boldly out your mouth, you release spiritual power to change things in the natural circumstances.

Think for yourself and question authority.

Spiritual leaders are not made by man, nor any combination of men. Neither conferences, nor synods, nor councils can make them, but only God.

My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?

People all over the world recognize me as a spiritual leader.

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy.

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.

For the Fascist, everything is the State, and nothing human or spiritual exists, much less has value, outside the State. In this sense Fascism is totalitarian.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.