Quotes About Authority

He stomped away like a pint-sized Godzilla looking for Tokyo.

La moral es una autoridad superior al derecho.

God replies that all it really proves is "that some men will follow any order no matter how asinine as long as it comes from a resonant, well-modulated voice.

Religion is never the problem it's the people who use it to gain power.

The novel cannot submit to authority.

Megalomaniacs like Alistair Drummond have become emperors and führers, served by underlings who never questioned their most irrational orders.

My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

Life is a game; you just have to make sure you're in control.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.

Concering the power of the written word

Calvin was "the author of religious freedom" in the sense he understood the limitations placed on the role and authority of the state by the Bible. Religious freedom is not a freedom possessed by individuals, it is the freedom of religious institutions from the influence of the civil government. In other words it is sphere sovereignty.

we're not after power. We're after ministry. The civil magistrate is a minister of God and we want the civil magistrate to get back to being a minister of God.

The meaning of the family is thus not to be sought in procreation but in a God-centered authority and responsibility in terms of man's calling to subdue the earth and exercise dominion over it.

Your desk should send to everyone who sees it the message: All is well; I am in control.

Addressing the non-tenure-track instructors was a ticklish and morally complicated task—akin to a ship's captain going belowdecks to rouse the galley slaves at their posts.

Just because you're playing without the rules doesn't mean they don't exist.

If he really didn't want women to call him at the office, he probably shouldn't have told them that. It's like when somebody says. 'whatever you do, don't open that door.' Of course that's the door you're going to open.

Ms. Primrose was the wise head teacher who had been in charge

Quizá sea el diablo quien dice estas cosas, y quizá tú las crees porque te las dice un rey.

pese a lo cual conservo algún sentido del humor y especialmente una notable capacidad de abstracción, es decir, que si no me gusta un tipo lo borro del mapa con sólo decidirlo

qué cabeza cortar si siempre quedará otra más autoritaria. (Lucas, sus luchas con la hidra)

Y su moraleja es así: 'No hay tercera dimensión, la tierra es plana, el hombre repta. ¡Aleluya!' Quizá sea el diablo quien dice estas cosas, y quizá tú las crees porque te las dice un rey.

Messieurs les douaniers, assez de conneries, ouvrez d'une bonne fois le colis, nom de Dieu, merde alors