Quotes About Authority

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.

Everything that is true is God's word, whoever may have said it.

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

It is not truth that matters, but victory.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

The Holy and Inspired Scriptures are sufficient of themselves for the preaching of the Truth.

They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.

It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.

Neither can oath nor promise bind any such people to obey and maintain tyrants against God and against his truth known.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

In the absence of truth, power is the only game in town.

If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.

Holy Scripture could never lie or err...its decrees are of absolute and inviolable truth.

... my convictions led me to adhere to the sufficiency of the light within us, resting on truth as authority, rather than 'taking authority for truth.'

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.

We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

You are your own highest authority. Do not place your source of authority outside of you. Go within to see if the truth you've found is in harmony with the truth you find in your heart.

Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, This is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, Cause almost everything that I was always ever told was a lie...

It takes truth, and it takes speaking truth to power, but because the stranglehold is so tight it seems to take something else - a real political threat.

It is not our believing of the Gospel that makes it true. It exists as independent, true Truth.