Quotes About Authority

herrschaft, a relationship of dominance and subordinance.3

Control of these fields is very eminently a matter of political power. One

Love has been the opium of women, like religion by the masses. While we loved, men ruled.

This was a very parentish thing to say; parents didn't understand that teachers never listened to explanations.

and Thomas Anstey Guthrie's Vice Versa: a Lesson to Fathers, a novel of 1882 about a schoolboy and his father, a City merchant, who exchange bodies and inhabit each others' lives. The boy's father is taught how trapped a lively-minded boy can feel when he has 'no money and few rights', 'virtually no way to assert himself in the world around him'.

And yet, as Verena watched her turn back to the dusting, she had the curious sensation that positions had been reversed in the oddest fashion. The girl was the one telling her to go away, it was her house and Verena was the maid.

I am not like other men, and the ordinary laws of morality and rules of propriety do not apply to me," Napoleon vaunted.

Kings can be autocratic, usually are. But queens give up some power to survive. They must work more closely with ministers, accept the views of others. They are hailed as skilled in compromise and bringing people together, whereas kings are congratulated for deciding, commanding.

I was born into a unique conjunction of female prime minister and monarch. To a child growing up in the 1980s, women ruled. Female heads were on coins and notes, criminals were incarcerated at Her Majesty's pleasure, and the queen's armed forces fought a female politician's wars. Accustomed

The extraordinary deference paid to physicians and their judgment preserved the idea that the woman's desire to end a pregnancy was not enough in itself, it had to be approved by a respectable authority figure, at the time almost always a man.

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

Lazarus, come forth. Not unless you bring me my top hat and stick. Stay where you are then, you snob. Not at all. I'm coming forth.

since the royal body was the most precious body in the kingdom, and hence deserved the greatest protection from the dangerous assault of water, it is possible that James I of England and Philip V of Spain were dirtier than some of their subjects.

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges.

Doctor Dowers," teased Connie. "Listen," said Liz, "after all the crap I had to take in grad school, you bet everyone's calling me Doctor. I'll get my cabdriver to do it if I can. I'll make my mother do it.

Minds altogether horrible in their power, and in their ignorance — which their power protected.

People will live their lives with or without a king to command them. It is the king who cannot live without his people.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

The authority of God is not ... an arbitrary, external authority, demanding blind obedience ... The authority of God is a wooing and conquering authority, the acceptance of which occurs with joy and willingness in the context of Christ's redemption.

The authority of God's Word ... We must be aware of the dangers of an experience-theology ... We must be critical of the suggestion that all scriptural questions could possibly be solved by excluding them on the basis of a childlike faith ... We must warn against a subjectification of authority, which might only become reality through acknowledgment ... We must also speak of the unique authority which can only be acknowledged and experienced on the way.

The authoriyty of God's Word ... is (known) in the way of the Spirit, who leads man to obedience and draws him in his full existence to the gospel.

The authority of God's Word ... is (known) in the way of the Spirit, who leads man to obedience and draws him in his full existence to the gospel.

The freedom of the man of God has nothing to do with autonomy … and … does not stand opposed to submission to God