Quotes About Authority

It's easy to be a cardinal when your cousin is the pope.

I have to tell you that I'm not all that comfortable with the idea of spending the rest of my life sleeping next to somebody who's got the power to fire me if my underwear doesn't make it all the way to the hamper." She repressed a smile. "I'm sympathetic to your problem, but I'm not selling the team just so you can be a slob." "Somehow I didn't expect you would.

This is America. We're entitled to our opinions." "Wrong. This is Texas. And my opinion is the only one that counts.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

An unpredictable parent is a fearsome god in the eyes of a child.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

The corporate and financial worlds want to make the rules but they certainly do not want to be seen making them, or governing anyone.

No, Mrs. Peters doesn't need supervising. For that matter, a sheriff's wife is married to the law.

The authorities did not wish to confront those citizens with the sight of the dead. Finally bodies were dumped unidentified into mass graves. Like plutonium waste which we would like to forget, these bodies had become poisonous.

Though I normally approve of plain speaking, as you know, I would suggest that as part of your good behavior, you refer to the king as 'his grace' or even simply 'the king' instead of 'that creature,' by the way.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

him lazy and stupid, they lashed his knuckles

If the lion knew his true strength it were hard for any man rule him.

I tell you this, madam, no man at court will be able to fart soon without asking Cecil first.

The ruling of men was a dirty business—

When Xi Jinping took command in 2012, some of us anticipated that he might turn foreign policy in a more conciliatory direction by centralizing the policy process and curbing the scrum of interest groups that had characterized Hu Jintao's oligarchy. Xi's personal authority was, and is, more than sufficient to restrain the various groups that had been promoting their own interests by overreaching under Hu's collective leadership.

The first recorded instance of book burning was in 213 BC, when Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang decided to incinerate any history books that contradicted his version of the past. In addition, he buried more than four hundred scholars alive.

the board believed it would be in everyone's best interest to have a man run the library.

judicial bonfires, and even household stoves." The first recorded instance of book burning was in 213 BC, when Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang decided to incinerate any history books that contradicted his version of the past. In addition, he buried more than four hundred scholars alive.

In truth I am changed by the event, and not for the better. Seeing how easily I can be physically overpowered has sapped a great deal of my fighting spirit. In the wake of this violation of my home and my person I experience an unfamiliar emotion: fear. I perceive fear rushes into the spaces left when confidence flees, when a woman realizes she is no longer a person of any particular importance or authority, as she had long been allowed to believe.

Authority is all very well, but no man should assume that he'll automatically be gifted with it because of his birth. Wisdom, not birth, qualifies a man to rule. The people of Kish may have mourned because their king Etana was childless.

Louis XIV] announced that he would now rule absolutely, without a council of advisors... No French king had ruled without advisors for almost a hundred years. And no one believed that this elegant young man... would be an efficient ruler.

The days of kings and lords first began to lose their brightness when philosophers and scientists realized that the ancient Greeks, who had long been held up as the wisest men in the world, were sometimes wrong.

I never paid much attention to cops before, and if I did, I saw them as adversaries. Not unlike the way Detective Malloy sees women.