Quotes About Authority

In a near anarchy, the only law is to maintain order. My

Captain Jones, I submit to you that you were never really cut out to be Captain. Oh, you're done it well, just like you do a good job of most things you tackle. But you're not a Captain. You don't enjoy ordering other people around. You like your independence, you like to go to strange places and do exciting things. In an earlier age you would have been an adventurer, a soldier of fortune.

Dominate. Intimidate. Control."241

biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom's annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into the diplomatic world that Washington does not have."250–MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG

A mere month and a half after 9/11, the structure for a new governmental scheme was in place. The

decisions. A July 2002 New York Times/CBS News poll revealed that 45 percent of Americans thought "other people are really running the government."20 Following

FEMA essentially has the power to put the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

which is run by unelected officials, would become the most powerful governmental authority.

This frightening state of affairs–where a person can actually be arrested and incarcerated for the most innocent and inane activities, including feeding a whale538 and collecting rainwater on their own property539 (these are actual court cases)–is due to what law

The second principle revolves around the belief that no one is above the law, not even those

or the inordinate influence of corporate powers on governmental decision-making.

A nation of sheep will "beget a government of wolves." – EDWARD R. MURROW CBS BROADCAST JOURNALIST 1908-1965

Obedience is the precondition to totalitarianism, and the precondition to obedience is fear.

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."1 —JAMES MADISON

AN END-RUN AROUND POSSE COMITATUS American

One officer proceeded to shoot the family dogs. His fellow

I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.

There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

Are you out of your princely wits?" What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!

To say that we are under grace is to say that the final truth of our lives, the final authority by which we are made and judged, is Jesus Christ the mercy of God. If

And grace is a little New Testament shorthand word for the miracle of God's mercy in Jesus Christ. Grace has a name, the name of Jesus; he is grace, embodied and acted out: "For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people" (Titus 2:11). To say that we are under grace is to say that the final truth of our lives, the final authority by which we are made and judged, is Jesus Christ the mercy of God.

O that I were a man, or that I had power To execute my apprehended wishes! I would whip some with scorpions.

Princes give rewards with their own hands, But death or punishment by the hands of other.