Quotes about Authority
The mind of a queen Is a thing to fear. A queen is used To giving commands, not obeying them; And her rage once roused is hard to appease.
- Euripides
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- Euripides
Until the great mobs could be educated into a moral sense, someone must cry: Thou shalt not!
- F Scott Fitzgerald
Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I talk with the authority of failure.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The drift away from the Bible has weakened the church.
- Fleming Rutledge
"Who are you to judge someone else's servant? To his own kurios (master) he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Kurios (Master or Lord) is able to make him stand" (NIV).
- Fleming Rutledge
I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.
- John Oliver
If there are any decisions that need to be taken in some circumstances, they should be in the favour of the most experienced driver.
- Mattia Binotto
The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
- Charles Hodge
All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.
- Charles Hodge
One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.
- Marquis de Sade