Quotes about Authority
To ask for anything contrary to His will is not prayer, but rank rebellion.
— AW Pink
Human responsibility is the necessary corollary of divine sovereignty.
— AW Pink
We readily acknowledge that it is very humbling to the proud heart of the creature to behold all mankind in the hand of God as the clay in the potter's hand, yet this is precisely how the Scriptures of truth represent the case.
— AW Pink
If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.
— Nikki Giovanni
Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
— Alexander Hamilton
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
— William Henry Harrison
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.
— George Bernard Shaw
When you go to women," says Nietzsche, "take your whip with you.
— George Bernard Shaw
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
— George Bernard Shaw
The power to exterminate is too grave to be left in any hands but those of a thoroughly Communist government.
— George Bernard Shaw
The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers. [ Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming, The Westminster Review, 1885. ]
— George Eliot
A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.
— George Eliot