Quotes About Authority

All empire is no more than power in trust.

All human things are subject to decay, and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive The first is the law, the last prerogative.

There is a risk to avoid in popular science. This is the atmosphere of unquestioned authority; the scientist explains, the reader learns. Science, though, is always provisional, not a final truth, and the adventure lies in the process, the struggle for understanding. When science is explained, the things that are explained are ideas and the observations on which those ideas are based. Ideas develop; ideas should always be questioned. In science as in life, the one sure thing is change.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.

I never talk about being leaders and all the rest of it. I can only remember one or two occasions in my life when I actually issued orders, and I felt thoroughly miserable after doing it.

My whole life I had seen my father solve every problem he had through the use of violence.

You will fear something or someone. The Bible says the wisest way to go about your life is to fear God.

What if we were to take seriously the possibility that our students have a rich and authoritative inner life and tried to nourish it rather than negate it?

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it.

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A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.

Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

I'm in control of my life, not anyone in Hollywood.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

You're scared of what you can't control

We're all as susceptible to the lure of power.