Quotes About Authority

Having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross" (Colossians 2:15).

The "contempt of cops" by those in their chain of command creates Toxic Boss Blues.

Maybe it's time to take a lot closer look at the bureaucratic decisions being made by some of our governmental agencies and to start reducing their powers back to where the citizens control instead of being controlled.

Gary, if you want to play on this football team, you answer me when I ask you who's your Daddy. Who's your Daddy, Gary? Who's your Daddy?

Sea que la gente se dé cuenta o no, la popularidad del "domingo" como día de adoración semanal, ¡es de hecho una "marca" de la influencia y autoridad global de la bestia Católica Romana, "sobre toda tribu, lengua y nación" (Apocalipsis 13:7)!

the leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.

Political philosophy is the study of the deepest, most intractable, and most enduring problems of political life.

The study of political philosophy has always revolved around such questions as "Why should I obey the law?" "What is a citizen and how should he or she be educated?" "Who is a lawgiver?" "What is the relation between freedom and authority?" "How should politics and theology be related?" and perhaps a few of others.

Ah, you poor fools, walking so tall and haughty with your guns and your sticks and your wide belts full of gear like the second coming of Batman, sitting in your little cars full of mechanized fear as you reach for your little radios at the first sign of anything more worrisome than a jaywalker.

Q: The Witness is reminded that she may be held in contempt. A: The feeling is mutual.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. —Abraham Lincoln

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

The Empress expects obedience of her servants, and demands loyalty.' 'Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.

Why is it, I wonder, that organizations such as yours are invariably run by pitiful human failures? By small-minded psychotics and perverts. All bullied as children, of course. Or abused by twisted parents – I'm sure you have terrible tales to confess, of your miserable youth. And now the power is in your hands, and oh how the rest of us suffer.

Laws decide wich forms of oppression are allowed, Lord. And because of that, those laws are servants to those in power, for whom oppression is given as a right over those who have little or no power.

All thrones should be made of ice, I think. Sit on that numb arse, sinking down and down, with the puddle of dissolution getting ever wider around you. Sit, dear ruler, and tell me all your grand designs.

I didn't like school. Every day, it was a toss-up whether I'd go or skip.

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

I slap people in public, especially erring policemen. I can even challenge them to a duel. I am a gunfighter.

On the sets, Bharathirajaa would treat me like an adult even though I was just 16. One day, he slapped me. I was taken aback. I cried and went back to school. Then, he called me and said, 'You are like my daughter. Come back.'

Peoples will be as before, the sheep sent to the slaughterhouses or to the meadows as it pleases the shepherds.

Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.

The fact that I'm sleeping with the director may have something to do with it.

For eight years, I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!