Quotes about Authority

I wanted to ask why it had to be like this, but I already knew the answer: because it was God's plan. That was how the Aunts got out of everything

What were prizes but one more level of control imposed on Art by the establishment?

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

Little children, such as Anne, must never, ever correct their elders, no matter how many blunders they make or how often they let their imaginations run away with them.

don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.

but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth.

Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

In biblical times, they used to stone a few thirteen-year-olds with some regularity, which helped keep the others quiet and at home. The mothers were usually in the first row of stone throwers, and had to be restrained.

The key piece of leverage was this promise: follow these instructions and you don't have to think. Do your job and you don't have to be responsible for decisions. Most of all, you don't have to bring your genius to work.

This desire for external approval and authority directly undermines your ability to trust yourself, because you've handed this trust over to an institution instead. Now, more and more of us are seeing that it's a fraud. The institutions have no magical powers, as they're regularly proved wrong in their ability to select, to mold, and to amplify human beings who care enough to make change happen.

No one runs your life unless you let them. And you have more power than you think.

Without realizing it, they're like clay telling the potter that they know more about pottery than he does and that they can form themselves into pots on their own (Is 29:16).