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“I'm a lion in a strange land.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.”
― C.J. Langenhoven

“How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.”
― John Bevere, Honor's Reward: How to Attract God's Favor and Blessing

“But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in my vocabulary expressed deeper hatred than the word INTERFERENCE. But Christianity placed at the centre what then seemed to me a transcendental Interferer. If its picture were true then no sort of 'treaty with reality' could ever be possible. There was no region even in the innermost depth of one's soul (nay, there least of all) which one could surround with a barbed wire fence and guard with a notice No Admittance. And that was what I wanted; some area, however small, of which I could say to all other beings, 'This is my business and mine only.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

“There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one's defense must itself be accountable to that standard.”
― John M. Frame, The Doctrine of the Word of God

“Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to bloody hurt.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground

“...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.”
― C.J. Langenhoven

“Her mind moved around and around the subject, moving with a kind of fuzzy firmness. With no coherent thought process, she arrived at a conviction - a habit with the basically insecure; an insecurity whose seeds are invariably planted earlier, in under or over-protectiveness, in a distrust in parental authority which becomes all authority. It can later, with maturity - a flexible concept - be laughed away, dispelled by determined clear thinking. Or it can be encouraged by self-abusive resentment and brooding self-pity. It can grow ever greater until the original authority becomes intolerable, and a change becomes imperative. Not to a radical one in thinking; that would be too troublesome, too painful. The change is simply to authority in another guise which, in time, and under any great stress, must be distrusted and resented even more than the first.”
― Jim Thompson, The Getaway

“Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

“...when the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then you are without excuse...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“My grandmother simply shook her head and said, "You know what you saw. The bird doesn't need to be counted, and neither do you.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.”
― Rosemary Clement-Moore, Texas Gothic

“...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“One of them is a very familiar personage. Her name is “Mother Church.â€� She is, in many ways, an admirable and dedicated person, deeply concerned about her children, endlessly and tirelessly careful for every detail of their welfare. Her long experience has taught her to understand her family very well. She knows their capabilities and she knows their weakness even better. She is patient and imperturbable, quite unshockable (she has witnessed all of the considerable range of human wickedness in her time) and there are no lengths to which she ill not go to educate her family. She has a huge fund of stories, maxims and advice, all of them time-tested, and usually interesting as well. She is very talented, skilled din creating a beautiful home for her children; she can show them how to enrich their lives with the glory of music and art. And there is no doubt that she loves God, and wishes to guide her children according to his will.

On the other hand, she is extremely inclined to feel that her will and God's are identical. In her eyes there can be no better, no other, way than hers. If she is unshockable, she is frequently cynical. She is shrewd, with a thoroughly earthy and often humorous shrewdness. She knows her children's limitations so well that she will not allow them to outgrow them. She will lie and cheat if she feels it is necessary to keep her charges safe; she uses her authority 'for their own good' but if it seems to be questioned she is ruthless in suppressing revolt. She is hugely self-satisfied, and her judgement, while experienced, is often insensitive and therefore cruel. She is suspicious of eccentricity and new ideas, since her own are so clearly effective, and non-conformists get a rough time, though after they are dead she often feels differently about them.

This is Mother Church, a crude, domineering, violent, loving, deceitful, compassionate old lady, a person to whom one cannot be indifferent, whom may one may love much and yet fight against, whom one may hate and yet respect.”
― Rosemary Haughton, The Catholic Thing

“True creation requires authority and authenticity.”
― Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason

“What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.”
― Patti Digh, Creative Is a Verb: If You're Alive, You're Creative

“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.”
― Erica Goros

“...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.”
― Emma Goldman, Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy.”
― J. Christopher Herold, The Age of Napoleon