Quotes About Authority

In one such church in Wilmington, Delaware, the police broke up the meeting by throwing tear-gas bombs through the windows and when the marchers broke out from the church in disorderly fashion, clubbed and arrested those whom they suspected of being the leaders.

The strong could make their own law, live their own lives; in fact, they were beyond good and evil. What was good and what was evil? It is easy enough to stifle conscience for a time. The satisfied flesh has its own law.

I was in charge. Of it all. All the time. For ever.

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

The state has the authority to take citizens' private property—in this case, their genetic information—without due process. Those are the features of a totalitarian state, not a liberal democracy. Jim

Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit.

Some people base their sense of ethics on what they've been told that God, or their church, or their parents, or their culture, believes to be okay or not okay. They believe that being good consists of obedience to laws set down by a power greater than themselves.

A husband can physically and verbally chastise their wife in order to control their behavior. The Bible says so.

No one here is allowed to die without my permission.

Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?' I asked. 'You cannot take these flowers,' said Zoran. 'They belong to the government.

Cell phones are not a sign of power, they're a sign of subservience.

God and Scripture alone are to be our standard of conduct and character.

When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.

Billy walked up to the car and bent down to look inside. 'Major Foster, what a pleasant surprise,' he said sarcastically. 'I'm glad you've popped round; it gives me the chance to tell you to f**k off.' Foster smiled in response

On the one hand, disestablishment led to an exponential increase in religious institutions, none of which was able to claim a legally sanctioned cultural authority. On the other hand, it deregulated the religious marketplace, enabling new ministry groups to flourish like never before.

One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them: It is a well known fact, that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job. Another problem with governing people is people.

The major problem— one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Politics, noun: [Poly 'many' + tics 'blood-sucking parasites']" ?—Larry Hardiman

The room fell silent as everyone considered what living under the rule of an unstable genius might be like. "Would

The Dictator's Handbook, written by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, and Alastair Smith,

thrust out their right arms

How many dictators and tyrants throughout history had been psychopathic? Erin suspected almost all of them.

To bend the entire world to his will. I'm not sure how this will manifest itself, openly or behind the scenes.

And put us both in charge.