Quotes About Authority

A partir de este punto, vea y piense en sí mismo como dueño y señor de su propio destino, absolutamente al mando de su propia vida.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Influencia, Robert Cialdini

The French Revolution could be seen as a social volcano widespread in its effect on all aspects of life for years to come. The sense of rebellion and authority it gave to

Halleck wrathfully wrote to Sherman: "It seems but little better than murder to give important commands to such men as Banks, Butler, McClernand, Sigel and Lew Wallace, and yet it seems impossible to prevent it.

When the King is mad, it is an honor to be an exile.

The church, said Calvin, is not subject to secular government except in obviously secular matters. On the other hand, the church has the obligation under the sovereign God, to guide the secular authorities in spiritual matters. Such a vision sent Calvin's followers throughout Europe as a spiritual conspiracy seeking the overthrow of false religion and restrictive governments.

Herr Oberst, if you were one of my nuns, I should order you under holy obedience to hurt my feelings. As you are not a nun, however, I can only request you to hurt them.

The greatest freedom comes from the greatest strictness.'(Paul Valéry)

Democracy doesn't work, Christianity doesn't work, nor Atheism, Nothing works but the gun and the man on top.

Nobody wins, ask Caesar

All the law is not in the hands of Giant Despair.

In verse 7 "submit to God" is the upward or Godward relationship and "resist the devil" is the outward or the satanward relationship.

Around thrones the thunder rolls.

Hardly. Guin was passionate about many things, but government wasn't one of them. As far as she was concerned, one crowned puppet is pretty much the same as the next.

You have just broken one of the cardinal rules. One does not contradict a member of the French royal family, no matter how ridiculous or patently false their utterances may be.

I am firmly committed to the proposition that whoever is in power is exceedingly silly.... And that goes for the opposition as well.

Camille Paglia

Modern liberalism suffers unresolved contradictions. It exalts individualism and freedom and, on its radical wing, condemns social orders as oppressive. On the other hand, it expects government to provide materially for all, a feat manageable only by an expansion of authority and a swollen bureaucracy. In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

In all the years, only one person had been foolhardy enough to try to fight Trooper Jim Tile. The boy's name was Dekle, and he was eighteen, as big and white as a Frigidaire, and just about as intelligent.

Since becoming chief, he'd also been well served by an uncommon immunity to condescension.

I didn't tell my parents what happened because they would've freaked and gone straight to Dusty Muleman, or maybe even the police, which was not how I wanted to handle it.

Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short.

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.