Quotes About Authority

God is usually on the side of the big squadrons and against the small ones.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.

He that has the Longer Sword, shall never want, either Lawyers, or Divines to Defend his Claim.

One person could run a small state, if they were strong and angry enough. But the USA was too big for that.

a team: Members are interdependent around a team task. Members know who is a member of the team. Members know the extent of the team's authority. Membership is stable over time.

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a non-comprehending parrot-like apparent competence--a duty and a duty alone--and no hint of magic or beauty of the subject might be allowed to come through.

Christ and His disciples in the New Testament treat sickness just like they do demons.

Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.

No dark sarcasm, in the classroom.

St. Paul's churches were indigenous churches in the proper sense of the word; and I believe that the secret of their foundation lay in his recognition of the church as a local church (as opposed to our 'national churches') and in his profound belief and trust in the Holy Spirit indwelling his converts and the churches of which they were members, which enabled him to establish them at once with full authority.

Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.

To make someone wait: the constant prerogative of all power.

With all due respect, Fred, I'm the president of the United States. Let them in.

If, when he first begins tentatively to say "No," his parents beat him down rather than love and encourage him, he thereafter will say "No" not as a form of true independent strength but as a mere rebellion.

I was on the ground, I was in command, I had been given the mission, and I took the decision.

She would bring him back to us as docile as a sheep. 'Women,' I concluded rather bitterly, 'have at their command certain means of persuasion which the best- organized police forces do not possess.

He was entirely free of what De Gaulle called, in the kitchen Latin of Molière, paralysus respectus, the kind of awed rigidity that seemed to get hold of every Frenchman in the general's presence.

In contemporary times we not only reconstruct the past but we also use it to give legitimacy to the way in which we order our own society.

A society has many pasts from which it chooses those that go into the creation of its history. The choice is made by those in authority—the authority being of various kinds—although occasionally the voice of others may be heard.

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.

As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.

Rule #1.When responding to any adult, you must answer by saying "Yes ma'am" or "No sir." Just nodding your head or saying any other form of yes or no is not acceptable.1-When responding to any adult, you must answer by saying "Yes ma'am" or "No sir." Just nodding your head or saying any other form of yes or no is not acceptable.