Quotes about Authority
Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
— AW Tozer
Man's word is God in man.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.
— Andrew Jackson
The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.
— Benjamin Disraeli
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
— CS Lewis
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
— CS Lewis
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
— DH Lawrence
The responsibility of a man is to lead his family.
— Ezra Taft Benson
I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.
— George Eliot
A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.
— GK Chesterton
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds.
— Mahatma Gandhi