Quotes About Authority

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher.

Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.

His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.

Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.

The spirit of fornication and adultery robs a man of his authority in the spiritual realm.

We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do.

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

The Internal Revenue Service is the real undefeated heavyweight champion.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

If you want a thing done - go. If not - send.

They would almost throw the cops in jail when they tried to arrest me.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him.

Once, when a government agent arrived at her home with a ream of paper that documented the case against her, she asked if that law was more powerful than natural law. He told her that, yes, it was a powerful law, the law of the federal government. Then, she said, it should be more powerful that this, and she threw it into her woodstove.

In this atmosphere of general discouragement, it is tempting to attack something that is sufficiently linked to the powers-that-be so as not to appear very sympathetic, but sufficiently weak to be a more-or-less accessible target (since the concentration of power and money are beyond reach). Science fulfills these conditions, and this partly explains the attacks against it.

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced