Quotes About Authority

We used to joke that we were more scared of the police than we were of the devil. You had to have I.D. with you all the time or else the police would throw you in jail. I got thrown in jail twice for not having I.D., and walking in there was like walking through the gates of hell.

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others.

I think 'The Act of Killing' forced people to look at the problem, but the problem is actually a state run by thugs, or a shadow state, a part of the state that's run by thugs, and a military that enjoys complete legal - not just impunity, but immunity.

If you aren't free to protect yourself when the government puts its thumb on that freedom, then you're not free at all.

You carry forever the fingerprint that comes from being under someone's thumb.

I think that it should just be a rule of thumb that if your job asks you to cut your hair... that means that it's time to quit that job.

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

Democratic constitutions do allow some suspension of rights in states of emergency. Thus rights are not always trumps. But neither is necessity. Even in times of real danger, political authorities have to prove the case that abridgments of rights are justified.

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.

In most languages, 'control' is the first synonym for the word 'manage.' Control is about spotting and correcting deviations from pre-defined standards; thus to control, one must first constrain.

Executive privilege is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, and thus is a very limited principle.

David and his followers taught no new doctrines, in their dispersion or when they came to power, that can be brought to countenance thee at all in shaving off thy beard.

There are certain people you listen to who might be a tick better than someone else.

I've been pulled over five times for speeding - and talked my way out of every single ticket!

I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket.

I've never been given a ticket by a police man.

I went on a date once with a police officer, unbeknownst to me. I thought he was a regular guy. And when I found out that he was a police officer... I wasn't so into it. I got paranoid that I would illegally cross the street and get a ticket for jay walking.

Can we understand - just for the record, we do need the government for a lot of big ticket items.

If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.

I'm not saying I do evil things. I'm just saying if a cop stops me when I'm speeding, sometimes - not all the time - I might get out of that ticket. Let's just say I don't have any points on my licence in Ireland, and I drive relatively quickly.