Quotes About Authority

The rich and powerful often tried to discredit crowd action by calling attention to the lowerclass status of rioters, but they could not always suppress the will of the people so forcefully expressed. Riots, with their direct objectives and moral urgency, effectively offset the arbitrary power or inattention of harsh rulers.

In New York, "An Act More Effectually to Punish Adherents of the King" declared that "preaching, teaching, speaking, writing, [or] printing" opinions favorable to the Crown was a capital offense, commutable by a three-year tour on a ship of war.

The jury which informed Potter he would be drawn and quartered was not an undisciplined mob but an official body representing the interests of the Revolutionary government. Humiliation with barnyard symbolism—goose feathers or hog's dung—had regressed to archaic forms of torture.

And worst of all, what if lower-class whites rebelled with the rest? That would present the ultimate challenge to the authority of the slaveholders. At least in Maryland, where poor loyalists rose in opposition to the patriot elite, this seemed a real possibility.

Inquiétant, non, un homme qui ne dit rien. Je ne sais pas si vous l'avez constaté, mais quand un homme ne dit rien alors que tout le monde parle, on n'entend plus que lui! Redoutable !

There are only two surefire ways to get people to do what you want them to do. You either put on an iron glove and make them do it. Or you tell them God wants them to do it.

At the time, any science, as it was then called, was thought to be a challenge to the authority of the Church; a science that promised spiritual purification was a direct threat to the Church.

But the winners chose what we should believe in. They chose which writings were sacred and which ones were 'heretical.

There is, in part, the glamour of science, which, since it is so spectacularly and usefully right over so many things, is often given authority where it has none.

white-haired, walrus-mustached man is leading the country right now, but just barely. President Paul von Hindenburg is eighty-four, tottering into senility. A politician half his age is growing in popularity,

Spiritual authority from Jesus Christ is never simply a display of power. It is filled with and fueled by love, love for God and love for others. Always.

These things I believe: that government should butt out.

I've got a big buzz going on because I'm known and put people to sleep.

I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs.

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate.

It's a lot easier to let someone else be Caesar.

In California, where you're allowed to drive at 16, you get so much freedom with that. It's a freedom to get outside of your parents' house and to do bad things.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

In this world, I call the shots and I think I know best.

I have this thing I used to say at home and in the office: If somebody is calling, unless it's somebody who can fire me, I'll call them back later.

Part of my job is to make the tough calls.

I have run campaigns. That doesn't make you the establishment.

All Scripture is God-breathed... but what we have to understand also is that the Canon of Scripture still is coming from a place of a loving God.

As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.