Quotes about Authority

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

There are men running governments who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

Secondly, If the command of Christ to teach all nations be confined to the apostles, then all such ordinary ministers who have endeavoured to carry the gospel to the heathens, have acted without a warrant, and run before they were sent.

The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Those who can command themselves command others.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

We admit of no government by divine right… the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

Today there is virtually a consensus... that Jesus came on the scene with an unheard of authority, with the claim of the authority to stand in God's place and speak to us and bring us to salvation. With regard to Jesus there are only two possible modes of behavior: either to believe that in him God encounters us or to nail him to the cross as a blasphemer. Tertium non datur. [There is no third way.]2