Quotes About Authority

The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.

People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a complete misunderstanding. The objections against Christianity spring from insubordination, the dislike of obedience, rebellion against all authority. As a result, people have hitherto been beating the air in their struggle against objections, because they have fought intellectually with doubt instead of fighting morally with rebellion.

If you take a life, I will take yours. Put me in charge, I will fix it.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Being the leader means you have to make life or death decisions sometimes.

In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life — what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

You can't make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.

I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

I would like eternal life. I would like to have the power to choose who lives and dies.

Like some great swelling river, the powers of the federal government have today breached their constitutional levees and spilled into countless areas of life never anticipated by the founders.

If you don't control your life, someone else will.

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.

He's my cat! He's not God's cat! Let God have his own cat! Let God have all the damn old cats He wants, and kill them all! Church is mine!

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

Some of the most corrupt people that you will meet in life are working in corporate government law enforcement. They make criminals look like amateurs.

There is an absolute power that truly empowers without corrupting

We can only change life in the country and radically reform society by having God's wisdom, strength and authority

The Great law is God's commandment.

Every evil starts with 15 volts.