Quotes About Authority

Clarence Hurt was driving, and he got lost. "Does anyone know where the Post Office Building is?" Hurt asked at one point. "I can tell you," Karpis said. "How do you know where it is?" asked Clyde Tolson, who sat in the backseat with Hoover. "We were thinking of robbing it," Karpis said.

the humility appropriate for a fellow sinner, express the courage and authority of one confident of the Savior's provision, exude the joy of salvation by faith alone, reflect the love that claims their souls, and perform their service without any claim of personal merit.14 Preaching

Without an ultimate authority for truth, all human striving has no ultimate value, and life itself becomes futile. Modern trends in preaching that deny the authority of the Word 8 in the name of intellectual sophistication lead to a despairing subjectivism in which people do what is right in their own eyes— a state whose futility Scripture has clearly articulated (Judg. 21: 25).

Long ago Augustine simply summarized, "When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

To believe Daniel is writing prophecy, as he claims, and not history, as the level of detail would seem to suggest, would require belief that what is written was supernaturally inspired. And if God has thus spoken, then his Word has far more authority over our lives than we may wish, and his far-reaching knowledge is far more real than we may want on the days that we want to go our own way.

Without an ultimate authority for truth, all human striving has no ultimate value, and life itself becomes futile. Modern trends in preaching that deny the authority of the Word6 in the name of intellectual sophistication lead to a despairing subjectivism in which people do what is right in their own eyes—a state whose futility Scripture has clearly articulated (Judg. 21:25). The

On the contrary, we speak as men approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel.

Even in modern Chinese, the word for "revolution" (as in "Cultural Revolution") is gémìng , which is literally "stripping of the mandate.

While human government exists the tendency to abuse power will remain.

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Slaves are created with words, and so it is with words that we create, and set ourselves free.

The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.

The prophet is appointed to oppose the king, and even more: history.

He knew nothing accurately about any subject in the world, but he could clothe his ignorance in pontifical garments and give his confusion the accents of authority. He had a remarkable flair for discerning and elaborating the tiny quantum of popular knowledge on any matter.

How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect?

A lot of people, they want it all to be fuzzy and warm and cosmic, but it's no different with a horse than with a kid…You can't always be the kid's best friend. First you have to be the parent.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

A la mierda! ¡El que quiera leer a Rimbaud que aprenda francés!

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

Captains may come and captains may go, but the administration goes on forever.

There is no moral difference between ordering an execution, and carrying it out.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle.