Quotes About Authority

The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over.

During war, the laws are silent.

Now I'm the go-to-girl for silent films.

Italy no longer wants to be a servant to silly rules.

I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.

If I had another life, that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.

I'm becoming the Simon Cowell of fashion.

What people don't understand is... because I became captain of Australia, I have no say in who gets a contract. Simon Katich was not dropped from a team when I was captain of Australia or when I was a selector.

The simple truth is that unless you can control immigration you cannot govern because you cannot set a budget or plan public services.

'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'

A writer is a writer when he says he is.

Alexander operated by the same principle. Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.

While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

The ordeal of command consists in this: that one makes decisions of fatal consequence based on ludicrously inadequate intelligence.

This is how command passes from a weak officer to a stronger. No rank alters; no papers are filed. Without a word, every man understands.

Audre Lord famously argued that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

Si un homme blanc veut me lyncher, c'est son problème. S'il a le pouvoir de me lyncher, c'est mon problème. Le racisme n'est pas une question d'attitude, c'est une question de pouvoir »

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp will be put out in deep darkness" (Proverbs 20:20).

Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle.

The Bible says, "How can one enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods unless he first binds the strong man?" (Matthew 12:29). In other words, we can't have any effect in the devil's territory unless we first bind him and forbid him any authority there.

When you find the church you're supposed to be in, you will recognize the pastor's voice as an important spiritual authority in your life.

By speaking God's Word, you can reveal wrong thinking and it will lose its power.