1,121 Quotes About Authority

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.

How could a superstition be true? Maybe “superstition” was what snuck into the gaps, the cracks, when you worked in a place with falling morale and depleted resources. Maybe superstition was what happened when your director went missing in action and your assistant director was still mourning the loss. Maybe that was when you fell back on spells and rituals, the reptile brain saying to the rest of you, “I’ll take it from here. You’ve had your shot.

The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority of the state is already thrown over by the authority of conscience. ... I fear for those yet unborn, that they are already betrayed. Robbed of the truth we can inherit, they will know their sins as only misery, and their forgiveness they will not know at all because they do not know God. Then at last men will be free of God. Then they will be slaves indeed.

There is no higher authority.

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.