Quotes About Authority

The only life we know well, the one on which we are the ultimate authority, is our own. The only experience to which we can bear witness is that which we have personally endured and observed.

You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published?

This time she was writing the guidebook herself, as she went, and its authority could not be challenged or repudiated.

The President ordains the bee to beImmortal.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

Poetry is not about authority. Poetry is one of the few thing we all have access to all the time that transcends and transforms authority into freedom.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

A wife as western quarter should be ministered to by her husband in five ways: by respecting her; by his courtesy; by being faithful to her; by handing over authority to her; by providing her with adornment (jewellery, etc.).

We convince by our presence.

Fellowship with God is for those who want to live under His authority.

The greatest power is not money power, but political power.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

[The British monarchy:] Its mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic. We must not bring the Queen into the combat of politics, or she will cease to be reverenced by all combatants.

The sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights—the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

The abstract thinking of the world is never to be expected of persons in high places...

The splitting of sovereignty into many parts amounts to there being no sovereign.

The English constitution, in a word, is framed on the principle of choosing a single sovereign authority, and making it good: the American, upon the principle of having many sovereign authorities, and hoping that their multitude may atone for their inferiority.

You may be great to serve under, difficult to serve alongside, but you sure are hell to serve over!

History is written by the victors.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Pharaoh is clearly a metaphor. He embodies and represents raw, absolute, worldly power. He is, like Pilate after him, a stand-in for the whole of the empire. As the agent of the "empire of force," he reappears in many different personae.9

When we suffer from amnesia, every form of serious authority for faith is in question, and we live unauthorized lives of faith and practice unauthorized ministries.