Quotes About Authority

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.

I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

But maybe people don't want fantasy, they want to feel they're in control, that they're playing by rules they understand and that it's possible to win.

Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.

quoting Baldwin: "Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.

That's what the army did, it created crises before any existed; it created a military emergency out of the void, the way God created the heavens and the earth.

I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.

Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.

Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become.

We also live in a structured society in which building relationships is not as important as task accomplishment, in which it is appropriate and expected that the subordinate does more asking than telling, while the boss does more telling that asking. Having to ask is a sign of weakness or ignorance, so we avoid it as much as possible.

Het op eigen gezag beslechten van geschillen mocht dan in vroegere tijden gangbaar zijn, thans behoort het thuis bij de rechterlijke macht.

Children should be seen and not heard,' my mother contributed grimly, ganging up on me. That was the worst part, having her join the enemy. I knew it was her idea of diplomacy, and that it probably stemmed from cowardice, but to me it was simple betrayal, selling out her own child for the sake of peace.

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions.