Quotes About Authority

This history of liberty is a history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

As the British statesman and Rothschild confidante Benjamin Disraeli wrote in Coningsby: So you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

When you take your place as the authority figure in your home, your child will feel more safe in the real world, not the screen world.

If God doesn't discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. —Hebrews 12:8

The greatest enemy of encouraging our children is anger. The more anger the parent harbors, the more anger the parent will dump on the children. The result will be children who are both anti-authority and anti-parent. This naturally means that a thoughtful parent will do all in his or her power to assuage anger—to keep it to a minimum and to handle it maturely.

You have the authority to correct them when necessary, so don't let anyone disregard what you say. —Titus 2:15

When you have some authority, use it to promote love, respect, and cooperation. — Gene Farmer —

Such immaturity will manifest itself in a lack of integrity. This lack will critically affect the child's spiritual development; the less able a child is to deal with anger well, the more antagonistic will be his attitude toward authority, including the authority of God. A child's immature handling of anger is a primary reason the child will reject the parent's spiritual values.

Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about.

Well, he may be long in the tooth, but one doesn't get to be leader of such a nation if he's mentally confused or doddering in old age.

The goal of politics is to make us children. The more heinous the system the more this is true.

Maybe there really only was one singular white man staring down at the world from his official boots and his official vehicle and his official sunglasses hanging high over his official smirk.

Power is not a means, Vinston; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power." I

The result is that God gave to the woman a corresponding power or authority as that possessed by the man. Therefore, the woman was not man's "helpmate," but a full power or authority corresponding to Adam.

That [never leaving home] is an undertaking which I have not asked of you and a promise which I refuse to make you!' said the young girl, haughtily. 'I am mistress of my own actions, M de Chagny: you have no right to control them; and I will beg you to desist henceforth. As to what I have done during the last fortnight, there is only one man in the world who has the right to demand an account of me: my husband! Well, I have no husband and I never mean to marry!

That is an undertaking which I have not asked of you and a promise which I refuse to make you! said the young girl haughtily. I am mistress of my own actions, M. de Chagny: you have no right to control them, and I will beg you to desist henceforth. As to what I have done during the last fortnight, there is only one man in the world who has the right to demand an account of me: my husband! Well, I have no husband and I never mean to marry!

A note: succubi are notorious amateur psychologists and have been since well before Freud. In fact I have it on good authority that Freud stole his whole gig from a particularly talkative succubus he used to know. And if you don't believe Freud knew a succubus, you haven't read Freud.)

God is hidden in vocations that bear authority. But that puts the pressure on human beings exercise that authority to act with God's justice and grace

An easily manipulated population that cares mostly for its own amusement may be more ready for tyranny (which can keep the masses happy with bread and circuses) than for the arduous responsibilities of self-government.

Dictators require the assistance of the people they rule, without which they cannot secure and maintain the sources of political power. These

One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great successes of the past--they say their deities are the masters of all universes, and yet they require grandmothers to defend them, as if they were children frightened by poultry. Or that the authority that punishes no one while there exists a chance for reformation will punish everyone when there is no possibility anyone will become better for it.

We say, "I will," and "I will not," and imagine ourselves (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters, when the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us and we are ridden like beasts, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.

These chaps everyone's been shouting at to change things, they're the very chaps that do so well as things are. Think they're going to make new rules for a game they always win? Not ruddy likely.