Quotes About Authority

He had gained it originally by virtue of his position at the head of the Kalganian navy, and through a lamentable lack of caution on the part of the previous lord.

There is no Master but the Master and QT-1 is his prophet!

I, as Mayor of Terminus City, have just

A soldier who serves an emperor has to have a uniform, and this also applies to a soldier who serves the Almighty.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.

Capitaine Etienne Relais was known to be incorruptible in an ambience in which vice was the norm, honor for sale, and laws made to be broken, and men operated on the assumption that he who did not abuse power did not deserve to have it.

to serve an ambassador who was despotic toward his subordinates and servile toward those of a higher social rank.

Los chilenos veneran al Papa, pero no le hacen caso en asuntos sexuales y sus concecuencias, porque un anciano celibe, de buen pasar economico, que no ha trabajado en su vida, poco sabe de eso.

No puedo ser miembro de una institución que me considera persona de segunda clase y cuyas autoridades, siempre hombres, imponen sus reglas con la fuerza del dogma y gozan de impunidad.

A los quince años me alejé de la Iglesia para siempre, no por falta de fe en Dios —eso vino más tarde—, sino por el machismo inherente a toda organización religiosa. No puedo ser miembro de una institución que me considera persona de segunda clase y cuyas autoridades, siempre hombres, imponen sus reglas con la fuerza del dogma y gozan de impunidad.

Typical Chilean characteristics, such as sobriety, a horror of ostentation, of standing out over others or attracting attention, generosity, a tendency to compromise rather than confront, a legalistic mentality, respect for authority, resignation to bureaucracy, enthusiasm for political argument

The Spanish authorities attributed La Pérouse's opinions to the regrettable fact that the man was French, but his writings made a profound impression on Padre Mendoza.

I never accepted the limited feminine role imposed upon me by my family, society, culture, and religion. At fifteen I walked away from the church forever, not for lack of faith - that cam later - but because of the inherent machismo of all religious organizations. I cannot belong to an institution that considers me a second-class member whose authorities, always male, enjoy complete impunity and enforce their rules with dogma.

because people who had anxiously waited fifty years to be in power would not relinquish it because there was a chicken shortage.

Si lo que quieres es andar armado, entre ser delincuente o ser policía, es mejor ser policía, porque tienes impunidad.

Mientras los dueños del poder robaban sin escrúpulos, los ladrones de profesión o de necesidad apenas se atrevían a ejercer su oficio, porque el ojo de la policía estaba en todas partes.

derecho a pernada

The truth is that men control political and economic power—they make the laws and apply them at their convenience—

quien paga imparte las órdenes. Ese es el primer axioma que incorporé a mi naciente feminismo.

When I was a girl in my grandfather's house, the men in the family had money, cars, and freedom to come and go anytime they wanted, as well as the authority to make all decisions, even the smallest ones, such as what would appear on the dinner menu. My mother had none of that; she lived off her father's and older brother's charity. She also had to protect her reputation. How much of that did I perceive? Enough to suffer for it.

he was not in favor of their acquiring any additional learning, for fear they would fill their minds with ideas unsuited to their station and condition.

Por desgracia el garrote es lo único que funciona en estos países. No estamos en Europa. Aquí lo que se necesita es un gobierno fuerte, un patrón fuerte. Sería muy lindo que fuéramos todos iguales, pero no lo somos.

Patriarchy is imposed with aggression; it demands obedience and punishes those who defy it.

cannot belong to an institution that considers me a second-class member whose authorities, always male, enjoy complete impunity and enforce their rules with dogma.