Quotes about Authority
Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.
- Eric Metaxas
The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.
- James Buchanan
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.
- James Madison
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.
- Ayn Rand
It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.
- Joyce Meyer
Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.
- Joseph Addison
I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.
- John Henry Newman
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.
- Thomas Jefferson
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.
- Calvin Coolidge
No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.
- Donald Trump