Quotes About Authority

If virtue does not equal powers, powers will be misused.

There are times when a society is so totally controlled by an ideology that the greatest need is that someone simply identify a point where he can say a clear no in the name of his loyalty to a higher authority. We have no right to say that those who refused to enroll in the racist crusade of Adolf Hitler should first have been obligated practically or morally to propose an alternative social strategy before they had the right to refuse.

Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!

I don't got to show you no stinkin' bahdges!

Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised. The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli

Laws are only words written on paper, words that change on society's whim and are interpreted differently daily by politicians, lawyers, judges, and policemen. Anyone who believes that all laws should always be obeyed would have made a fine slave catcher. Anyone who believes that all laws are applied equally, despite race, religion, or economic status, is a fool.

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.

Food is power. . . are you in control of yours?

Protestants appeal to Scripture against the Church, "they forget that it is from this very Church, and on her authority, that Scripture is received.

The system of those who limit divine inspiration to matters of faith and morals cannot be tolerated.

God has given us the Papacy," the thirty-seven-year-old pope is said to have written to his brother Giuliano soon after his accession, "now let us enjoy it." The

the pope was God's representative here on Earth—and there the matter ended. Emperors might enjoy the privilege of protecting and defending the Church; they had no right to interfere in its affairs. The pope's authority was absolute; synods were summoned merely to carry out his orders; bishops, archbishops, and even patriarchs were bound to him in loyalty and obedience.

He (the Bible study leader) is blessed with a light touch and a firm hand.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

Like a bitch in heat, I seem to attract a coterie of policemen and sanitation officials.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.

An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

Chinese communism lies the world's longest tradition of successful autocracy.

The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment [Regimen] of Women.

Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice.

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That the Pape is not the successour of Petir, but whare he said, "Go behynd me, Sathan.