Quotes about Authority
The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.
— Pope Francis
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
— Will Rogers
Precedents once established are so much positive power.
— James Madison
There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
— Roger Williams
The Gospel is a gospel of power or it is nothing at all.
— Reinhard Bonnke
The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
— Thomas Paine
Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.
— John Wycliffe
Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.
— St. John Chrysostom
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
— Frank Herbert
What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.
— Catherine Booth
We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint.
— William Howard Taft