Quotes About Authority

divinely given framework based upon natural order of creation and appropriateness of function within a master plan. One cannot accept the Bible as authoritative while rejecting its authority concerning home and church order. One cannot

Dios es la norma fundamental y final para todas las afirmaciones de la verdad.

The Bible-oriented preacher wants the congregation to know that his words, if they have any abiding worth, are in accord with God's words. He wants this to be obvious to them. That is part of his humility and his authority. Therefore, he constantly tries to show the people that his ideas are coming from the Bible. He is hesitant to go too far toward points that are not demonstrable from the Bible.

So my prayer for this book is that God would stand forth and reassert his Creator-rights in our lives, and show us his crucified and risen Son who has all authority in heaven and on earth, and waken in us the strongest faith in the supremacy of Christ, and the deepest comforts in suffering, and the sweetest fellowship with Jesus that we have ever known.

America's power position as "the hammer of the whole earth" extends to more than military power. America tells other nations what to do and how to do it. For example, America forced the UBS AG Bank in Switzerland to close all of the offshore accounts in the Swiss Bank held by U.S. citizens, as part of an IRS "tax investigation which challenges Switzerland's famous banking secrecy laws." (Reuters, January 9, 2009).

queen of kingdoms." Is there any nation in our world, in our time, that this title fits more appropriately than the world's only remaining superpower, the United States of America? America is the "queen of kingdoms.

located in strategic states across the country. He knew that doesn't even happen in a dictatorship.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.

every fork in the road Nasser went left, Al-Sadat went right, and Mubarak says, "Don't move.

The local men who cruise with other men told me that everyone understood they were free to do whatever they liked, and without hassle from the authorities, if under-eighteens were not involved, to the extent that those who preferred adolescent rent boys are known to travel to Beirut or Istanbul, where word on the street is that they are available in abundance (for the right price).

People don't resist change. They resist being changed! ~ Peter Senge

Who is bin Laden? What is his education, what is his authority, what is his credibility, what is his government, what is his contribution to Islam? Nothing gives him credibility. As far as I am concerned, he is nothing but a maniac who abuses religion and the religious feelings of uneducated Muslims in Peshawar. He misleads them and pushes them to suicide.12

If individuals do not occupy their legitimate position, then it will be occupied by a god or a king or a coalition of interest groups. If citizens do not exercise the powers confered by their legitimacy, others will do so. (I - The Great Leap Backwards)

Governments produced by the most banal of electoral victories, like those produced by the crudest of coups d'état, will always feel obliged to dress themselves up linguistically in some way.

the radical side of Protestantism, with its idea of the priesthood of all believers and the denial of an ecclesiastical authority interposed between God and the faithful. This view says that moral principles and precepts are accessible to normal reasonable persons generally-various

IN the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt….

Shall I show him in or tell him to go find a short and unpleasant route to hell?

Son, We're in no mood for Mickey Mouse. Get out of the road." Chief Miller, Into the Looking Glass

The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

How do you prevent a little sociopath from becoming a big, full-blown sociopath? Sit on him.

The reasons: • They think it's funny. • They take perverse satisfaction out of upsetting adults. • Sometimes they get what they want when they misbehave. • Rebelling against authority gives them a sense of power. • They often get a lot of attention when they misbehave. • They discover that they can control certain people and situations by misbehaving.

The perpetrators of genocides are usually men of the herd, men who follow orders without questioning them. Rwanda was no exception.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.