Quotes about Authority

Some spiritual leaders try to be more committed. What they need is to be more submitted.

I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.

The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.

He who fears God fears no man.

An old Scot used to say to us, 'If He is not Lord of all, He is not Lord at all.

You're nothing but a pack of cards!

When he spoke, he illuminated a truth I had always yearned for and yet always run from. I am known as an authority on the holy texts, and yet when he spoke, I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.

The other men came in and somehow Lou got the same order across to them. We all went to comply—like so many dumb sheep.

You can't be that good; you work for me.

God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.

I went to a school run by Catholic nuns. They were really strict.