Quotes about Authority
The Ten Commandments have no right to condemn that conscience in which Jesus dwells, for Jesus has taken from the Ten Commandments the right and power to curse us.
- Martin Luther
all the popes, monks and priests were to fuse all the matter of their preaching into one mass, they would not even then teach and present as much as St.
- Martin Luther
No believing Christian can be coerced beyond Holy Writ
- Martin Luther
But if you command me to believe or to get rid of certain books, I will not obey; for there you are a tyrant and overreach yourself...
- Martin Luther
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The mariner will have dominion over the atmosphere and the great deep, over the fish of the sea and the fowls of the air.
- Mary Baker Eddy
When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.
- Richard Nixon
Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions
- Jerry Falwell
There was no real up-and-down structure, but merely a figure at the top and then everyone else scrambling for his attention. It wasn't task-based so much as response-oriented—whatever captured the boss's attention focused everybody's attention.
- Michael Wolff
He answered emails in one word—partly a paranoia about email, but even more a controlling crypticness.
- Michael Wolff
He was the ultimate antiliberal: an authoritarian who was the living embodiment of resistance to authority.
- Michael Wolff
You could hardly find an entity more at odds with military discipline than a Trump organization.
- Michael Wolff