Quotes About Authority

My momma was slick as greased lightning. She knew how to get anybody and everybody to do whatever she wanted 'em to do.

I don't think the government needs to be frightened of the banks in the slightest.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

When old people in power scold children and young people for 'selfishness' if they don't get triple-vaxxed, or if they let their mask slip below their nose occasionally, or try to have some fun in the sun, it's obvious who actually is being selfish.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.

The revelation is that when you lift the curtain, history is decided by a very small group of people, and their own interests guide their actions, not necessarily the laws or principles we think our country rides on.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Governments should be smaller. In fact, governments and countries in general are less important than we think they are. They take credit for processes they have nothing to do with.

When some states introduced mandatory smallpox vaccinations during the epidemic of 1898-1903, Americans resisted by the thousands. The ensuing battles produced medical conventions and case law that altered the balance between government authority and medical practice, in favor of federal control.

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

Gary Bettman's a smart guy.

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.

Most kids are smarter than most grown-ups. Kids see the world in black and white... They look through all the garbage and see a world run by fools and dullards and lazy people. And there's nothing they can do about it because they have no power.