Quotes About Authority

We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office." —Aesop "Any

gruppenfuhrer, the equivalent of a major general,

You know that's not the entire quote," said Knight. "It's, 'Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, and you're a god.

Desh believed that dangerous character traits such as megalomania, sadism, and sociopathy tended to be enriched in populations of people who had risen to positions of power and influence. This enrichment was even more pronounced at the top of organizations such as the CIA and the military, to which people with these pathologies tended to gravitate preferentially.

Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror.

Kill one man and you're a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you're a conqueror. Kill them all, and you're a god.

perfected mass-brainwashing techniques early on after extensive experimentation on their populations.

Politics, noun: [Poly 'many' + tics 'blood-sucking parasites']

We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office.

A crooked peace officer is just a damned abomination," McCarthy wrote. "That's all you can say about it. He's ten times worse than the criminal."48

Years later, the plain-speaking Truman would explain: "I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president . . . . I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I speak to you spirits and I command you to LEAVE!

If our belief in the authority of the Bible means anything, it means that we must submit to what the Bible teaches and bring our own perceptions and ideas into line with Scripture.

The requirement that authority must equal responsibility is not only impossible to fulfill; it is logically unnecessary except within a system which makes authority the exclusive means of influence. The

Society is a funny thing. The rules are arbitrary and designed to maintain control of the masses.

We are currently living under a form of government that our Constitution was explicitly designed to prevent.

Disagreements about things like the necessity of Christian education are actually disagreements about the nature of knowledge, the meaning of common grace, the authority of natural revelation, and the possibility of neutrality in education.

We confess that Jesus is Lord. He is not simply Lord of a spiritual zone somewhere, but He is Lord of the nations.

Theocracy is not, however, to be confused with "theocracy" or any other form of government contained within scare quotes, to which I am unalterably opposed.

Control of the future is actually a (vain) attempt to control people, with the future as our instrument.

And so in Christmas, we turn to the principalities and powers (those that are left), conduct our celebrations, and all God's people say, "Take that.

This is why so much of the discussion about "modernity" and "postmodernity" is just pretentious. What we call Enlightenment modernity was just the period when our public authorities fell into unbelief. Postmodernity is when they discovered that unbelief is a slippery place, and they fell into it deeper.

The magistrate must wear Christ's livery, and not the other way around.

If you do not discipline your children effectively, you hate them.