Quotes About Authority

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse."

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Both figuratively and literally, entitled people expect your signature on the front of the checks, and theirs on the back.

that pecking order. The dogs are taught

Out of respect to the reverend mother I had set my

There was no better time to intimidate than when waking someone from a deep sleep.

For most of us church folks, the norm has been defined by what we have or haven't experienced up to this point. Another way of saying this is we've allowed our experience to define normal. What we experience determines what is normal; what we consider to be normal is authoritative, and thus our experience becomes our authority. What we have or haven't experienced sets the bar for what we do and don't expect from God.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Only bad religions depend on mysteries, just as bad governments depend on secret police." A character's response to a discussion about eating from the tree of knowledge.

That didn't take long," Trysil said, clenching a fist so that the muscles popped out along her arm. "You know the captain. When he wants to leave, we leave.

Autocratic governments are masters of self-contradiction. They say one thing, do another.

Get off the throne, Mr. Quindar. And you," Madame Granity said, pointing to me, "you get on it. I know your sister's got the gift, and it often runs in siblings, however I'd still like to see it for myself.

I can have Paladin take you home," Father said in a warning tone.

Personal relationships, mood, chance, or anything like that can actually affect people's decisions, and when they're in a position of power, their capriciousness can affect the fate of a nation.

Personal responsibility is better than any government order.

While we don't have the authority on the state level to change federal policy, my fellow governors and I do have a duty to protect our states' citizens, and we have a personal responsibility to act when we have the power to do so.

Not head coach - Assistant would be very attractive, but I don't think I have the discipline to deal with all the egos and personalities a head coach has to deal with.

It's not the armband that makes a good captain - it's the force of personality.

Let me tell you quite bluntly that this king business has given me personally nothing but headaches.

The Church is presided over personally by Jesus Christ.

You need the management personnel who can help you out with various things. The captain can't be asked to get into every decision.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.