Quotes About Authority

if the punishments a child has already received for their concerning behaviors haven't put an end to these behaviors, it must be because the punishments didn't cause the child enough pain. So, they add more pain.

In many two-parent families, one parent is primarily disposed toward imposition of adult will (convinced that more authority would get things squared away), and the other is primarily disposed toward just letting things go (having become convinced that more authority is only making things worse and that family peace is more important than compliance).

In the Great Commission, Jesus declared, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matt. 28:18–20). This is the joyful news the church must proclaim: all power and authority is given to Christ the King, who rules absolutely over heaven and earth. Christians

In the Bible, women are presented as no less intelligent than men, nor any the less capable of redemption; the question is one of authority, not of humanity or dignity, whereas in the neoplatonist tradition women are seen at times almost as a different species or at best a very inferior form of man.

Love is a funny thing," he says, breaking the silence. "Sometimes, I'd like to be better with words, so that I could talk about it more. It seems so wrong to me that there is this condition that affects all of us, more than anything else in our lives ever will, and only the poets and song writers get to talk about it with any sort of authority.

I am often asked: "What are Southern women like?" That is a question that many people feel entitled to an answer to. But I cannot speak with authority — not with authority as it is known in the South — about Southern women. I am acquainted with no more than two-thirds of them, and several of those I haven't seen in some time.

A curious contradiction which any child soon sees through occurs when his parents expect to control him when they cannot control themselves.

Ali, who had seen scores of his students go out to become mullahs of neighborhoods and villages, now thanked God he had the talent to remain in a life of learning, since he clearly lacked the courage - he was tempted to say the audacity - to tell other people how to live their lives.

The State is born of the conquest of other people. The self-governing community is a creation of the people themselves in the process of overthrowing the State.

If the party was so great and benevolent, why should it be so frightened of dissent or free thinking? Yet, they punished even the slightest opposition.

A revolution must aim at the destruction of the given order and will succeed only by asserting an order of its own.

Fue Himmler, y sólo él, quien durante el curso de la guerra fijó el carácter definitivo de los campos de concentración. Sólo él daba las órdenes al servicio de Seguridad, sólo él tenía el derecho a hacerlo.

Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages

Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.

"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade."To turn you out, to turn you out," the Color-Sergeant said.

Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

Daughter am I in my mother's house; But mistress in my own.

They've taken of his buttons off an' cut his stripes away,An' they're hangin' Danny Deever in the mornin'.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.

Sit!' -Kagome (to InuYasha and he falls.)

It is simplicity itself to fire one's employer. All it takes is some kindling and a match.

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.