Quotes about Authority

Oppressors themselves acknowledge that even the weakest of their subjects must agree to be oppressed.

The exercise of power always presupposes resistance. Power is never evident until two or more elements are in opposition.

Religion ceases to be religion when its poetic authority is recast as civic authority.

She was a long-necked, long-backed woman, who disciplined her hair and her children. She was never embarrassed, and her anger, though never permitted to be visible, made itself felt the more.

As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.

It's one of the guiding philosophies of my life - not fearing any authority on earth.

The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett.

My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially when she wasn't around.

Obedience alone gives the right to command.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.