Quotes About Authority

The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

You know what happened the last time a group of people said, 'Screw it, we don't care what you think'? They got hung as witches.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting.

A guardian is broad-minded and understanding. A guard, on the other hand, is a vigilante, narrow-minded and most of the time despotic.

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

Laws are silent in time of war.

The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Once upon a time people talked about the infallibility of the pope; today it is that of the merchant which they wish to establish.

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty.

A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there's only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.

Every time you touch those who have power over the media, they seek to stop you.

The violence of our time is caused by obedience.

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.

You can get a few seasons out of power, even accomplish some things, but over time power can be very damaging to relationships.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.