Quotes About Authority

Wealth was measured in control over other people, and the grip of that control could never be permitted to loosen. Odd, then, that this rebellion had had nothing to do with such inequities, that in truth it had been little more than a struggle between those who would be in charge.

You weren't punished for not doing what you were told. (...) They hurt you because they could, because there was no-one there who was capable of stopping them.

A nose in the air just made it easier to cut the throat beneath it. And when it came to that choice, why, he never hesitated. As sure as any force of Nature.

The girl spoke, a tone of command that rang like iron on stone.

Power has voice, and that voice is the Song

To rule is to kneel before expediency.

No tyrant could thrive where every subject said no. The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.

The Federal Communications Commission was preparing to grant the necessary authority to begin cellular telephone service, even though the technology had been around for more than twenty years. The first popular handheld cell phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, would appear in 1983; the size of a brick, the DynaTAC cost $3,995, and its battery charge lasted only thirty minutes.

Stay away from the government.

Members are indoctrinated to believe that the Training Routines will help them be more effective in their lives—earn more money, be better communicators, get better jobs. Later they are told that by performing these routines they will help clear the planet of poverty, crime, disease—indeed, of all of humanity's problems. At the highest level, members are told that they can control matter, energy, space, and time. The truth is, they are the ones being controlled.

the remarkable power of behavior modification techniques, group conformity and obedience to authority. These three factors are known in psychological terms as "influence processes" and demonstrate that situations often determine human behaviors, often more than the values and beliefs of the individual.

think in terms of a continuum of influence: at one end, respectful, ethical, growth-enhancing influence that recognizes the value of individuality, human rights, and creativity; at the other end, conformity, dependency, and slavery, where all authority lies with the leader and the group.

one cannot begin to understand mind control without realizing the power of behavior modification techniques, as well as the influences of conformity and obedience to authority.

Inspiring fear of real or imagined threats override's people's sense of agency. It makes them susceptible to a confident authority figure who promises to keep them safe, and can make them more compliant and obedient.

I'd go off alone, because you can't trust those who want to break the rules and you certainly can't trust those who make the rules so you do the only thing possible, you avoid the rules.

You cannot have Christ for your Savior unless you also have Him as your Lord.

It matters to God what is preached. And it matters to Him how it is preached. No man is free to preach whatever and however he so chooses.

No preacher, regardless of where he serves, is free to reinvent preaching.

The only true reformation is that which emanates from the Word of God.

We owe to the Scripture the same reverence which we owe to God because it has proceeded from Him alone, and has nothing of man mixed with it."14 This was the unshakable foundation of Calvin's preaching-the authority of divinely inspired Scripture. He firmly believed that when the Bible speaks, God speaks.

God is the decider and the determiner of every man's destiny, the controller of every detail in every individual's life, which is another way of saying, "He is God."1 — John MacArthur

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.

The fact remains, no church can rise any higher than its pulpit.

I can't think of any other field in which people who aren't experts critique other people who aren't experts in the hope of everyone becoming an expert.