Quotes About Authority

Because I grew up with a drill sergeant in my life, I respect order and it really gave me the discipline to be a leader and not a follower. It also helped me stay out of trouble.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

She'll soon forget." "Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!

Carefully execute every instruction given to you by the director, producer, and studio. But that would be a life not worth living.

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

One cannot hold power and not use it.

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.

It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

The refs are so confused themselves because there's so many rules. It's like, 'Oh my gosh I've never seen this many rules in my life.' And everybody's trying to govern this and justify that.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

Rule, after you have first learned to submit to rule.

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in.

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.