Quotes about Authority

Bible verses remain true, even if the devil quotes them.

6 The first job God gave humans was to manage and take

Obedience unlocks God's power.

Doctrine is a wonderful servant and a horrible master.

The spirit of dialectical fearlessness is not so easily acquired; and the sense of isolation which remains despite the conviction of right, the sadness of the parting from admired and trustworthy [or trusted?] authorities, is the line of demarcation which marks the threshold of its acquirement.

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.