Quotes About Authority

A profession that I was once proud to serve in has become a militarized police state. Officers are quicker to draw their guns and use their tanks than to communicate with people to defuse a situation. They love to use their toys, and when they do, people die. The days of the peace officer are long gone, replaced by the militarized police warrior wearing uniforms making them indistinguishable from military personnel.

They seem to be simple because they have formal heads and definite forms, councils, voting assemblies, and so forth, for arriving at decisions. But the formal heads, the kings, presidents, and so forth, are really not the directive heads. They are merely the figure heads. They do not decide. They merely make gestures of potent and dignified acquiescence when decisions are put to them.

Let us consider historically how human populations have been controlled. Throughout the ages, there have been two predominant methods for controlling humankind—religion and finance.

Leaders can also set aside matters of personality and make decisions based on fact.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Sarah Jane, do you always have to be the teacher?" she asked and then immediately added, "I already know the answer so you don't have to answer that.

Giving "Magic" the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Khan a horse.

What's critical to understand is that you have access to that same eternal life-giving Spirit that powered Jesus. The words and actions of Jesus were originating from the same source. That same authority from which Jesus spoke and acted is in us.

The Christian church has preached a powerless gospel that has led countless people into a religious maze that goes nowhere. They have handcuffed the masses to a false God. The Bible has been misinterpreted and misused by religious leaders who claim to have spiritual authority, giving this bankrupt system a false air of legitimacy and credibility. I'm not pointing the finger; I was one of them. I was sincere, but I was sincerely wrong.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

The closest thing we have to a "crap detector" is a qualified librarian.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

I feel really good in the teacher role.

As you go on your vision retreat annually and surrender your marriage to God, you are taking a huge step to unify your marriage under His authority and with His provision. Unity comes because we aren't two stubborn people trying to impose our wills upon each other. We are two submitted people trying to find God's one will for our purpose together.

Watching the world try to defy God's authority is like watching a group of two-year olds plotting to take over the house.

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.

7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law He ought to die (spoke of the Jewish Sanhedrin, the Ruling Body of Israel, both Civil and Religious),

Ten inches of raw uncut power.

It has been my experience that the only person who enjoys a meeting is the person who calls it so they can look important and boss everyone around.

Your role is not to make your child happy every moment of the day regardless of the personal cost, but to raise her to be a thoughtful, kind, productive citizen of the world. Some people would beg to differ, but it's not a choice to discipline or not. Your child needs discipline, just like she needs food and water.

Being surrounded by toadies does not mean you are respected; it means you are the head toad.

I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day.