Quotes About Authority

To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.

A writer should always bravely face life, risking death and mutilation in order to dethrone an emperor.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

there comes a time in every rabbi's life when he thinks he's Moses.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.

God has reserved to Himself the right to determine the end of life, because He alone knows the goal to which it is His will to lead it. It is for Him alone to justify a life or to cast it away.

Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.

Persuasion is better than force.

Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.

You not only choose between two ways of life but you choose between two masters.

The tongue has the power of life and death.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

He who despises life is his life's master.

The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge.

Your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. Then puberty makes you Satan, just because you want something better.

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

God's words trump all opinions, including mine, and in the end, I believe God's words lead to life.

"Subterranean Homesick Blues" [of Bob Dylan] captures, in word-salad format, life in an encroaching police state.

A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.