Quotes About Authority

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin)

Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life.

In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

He was getting that look he gets, oh boy, like Here comes Moses tromping down off of Mount Syanide with ten fresh ways to wreck your life.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

Why should I give someone else such power over my life?

It's not up to the government to regulate everybody's life and lifestyle.

A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Blind submission to the Administration of the government is not devotion to the country or the Constitution. The administration is not the government.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

Officially, he was no longer a victim, he was a criminal

We're in the hands of the state legislature and God, but at the moment, the state legislature has more to say than God.