Quotes About Authority

It's a throat-slashing, shark-feeding, off-to-meet-the-gods offence, clear?

The Old Testament was the Bible of our Savior, the apostles, and the early church. We cannot understand them or their work if we ignore the fount from which they drank or the authoritative library from which they read.

While Kaiser has steadfastly refused to silence the prophets, he also repeatedly warns against giving them the last word.

So severe is the crisis that in 2011 Governor Rick Snyder persuaded the state legislature to grant him broad and unprecedented powers to take control of fiscally unstable local governments and to abrogate union agreements, a highly controversial maneuver that smacks of malevolent paternalism more than sound public management.

931.A third grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother sent her a birthday cake to school along with a knife to cut it. The teacher used the knife to cut the cake, and then reported the girl to the authorities for having a dangerous weapon.

A policeman pulls a man over for speeding and asks him to get out of the car. After looking the man over he says, "Sir, I couldn't help but notice your eyes are bloodshot. Have you been drinking?" The man gets indignant and says, "Officer, I couldn't help but notice your eyes are glazed. Have you been eating donuts?

A policeman stops a woman for speeding and asks to see her license. He looks at it and says, "Lady, it says here that you should be wearing glasses." "Well, I have contacts," the woman replies. "I don't care who you know! You're getting a ticket.

Women were born to serve and not to question the workings of gods or men. The blood and pain of women had always sustained the Earth, and would ever thus.

He's trying to control me, and he wants to use his religion to do that. Religion isn't just a power word- the word is power itself.

You can fuck your math teacher but you can't fuck math.

Break the rules only if you have mastered them.

help us to live with more confidence that Jesus is the Good Shepherd, not a consulting partner; a very present Lord, not an absentee landlord; the reigning King, not an impotent bystander.

Today, right now, I affirm that you, Lord Jesus, are already the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. I'm not waiting for the day you will become the true King, for you are already reigning over all things at the right hand of God the Father. The government of all things is on your shoulders. Your kingdom of redemption and restoration is the only unshakable kingdom. Of the increase of your government and peace there will be no end, for you will reign forever and ever!

To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. (Jude 24–25 NIV)

And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death." (Rev. 12:10–11)

I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge our authority. So if I come, I will bring up what he is doing, talking wicked nonsense against us. And not content with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers, and also stops those who want to and puts them out of the church. (3 John 9–10)

Moreover, he was deeply versed in demonology, and could smell wizardry or witchcraft featly as the beagle scents the cony, so when he spake he spake with great authority, and thus he spake to the Burggraf:

the learned holy men knew more of sacred things than this wild woman of the camps who wore her hair at shoulder length and fared forth dight in hose and doublet like a man

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

I trust contrariness. ... I simply rebelled at being commanded.

Obedience And respect must be instilled. And that is why No woman here is going to be allowed To walk all over us. Otherwise, as men We'll be disgraced. We won't deserve the name.

Behaviour that's admired is the path to power among people everywhere.

I'm always in control,' she said with the hint of a smile. 'Even when I'm not.' 'What do you mean?' Eric asked. 'The submissive has all the power,' Almira said. 'It's all about consent. I'm only talking to you right now because I want to; ergo, I'm the one in control, even though you're asking the questions. And right now, you're not even thinking about how to profile me. My eyes are up here.

In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.