Quotes About Authority

If God does have good reasons for his commandments, why don't we appeal to those reasons directly and skip the middleman?

The moral sense sanctifies a set of norms and taboos that govern the interactions among people in a culture, sometimes in ways that decrease violence, though often (when the norms are tribal, authoritarian, or puritanical) in ways that increase it.

God is love, but He also defines what love is. We don't have the license to define love according to our standards.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! - But the great Faith is Love!

What does America love more than one white male?

To govern was to serve, not to rule.

Great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant.

While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the other, Mengestu tracks both themes with authority and feeling.

There can be no true discipline without love...only compliance.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can't kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We'd have to kill off the government.

Well, as much as I love kicking asses and taking names, it's way past curfew for you three"- Arriane

Love is a territory where orders can't be issued.

Write like you're in love. Edit like you're in charge.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

The presence of a king engenders love Amongst his subjects, and his royal friends.

Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.

In this job, you're going to make decisions. You'll say things that some people are going to love them, some people are going to hate them. It's just part of the job.

The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it.

Cause I bring the heater. Love me cause I'm your leader.