Quotes About Authority

I'm the king. I can do whatever the fuck I want.

I'm getting really fucking tired of being manhandled like this!" Wrath hollered. Tohr

Elizabeth lifted her head and glared at him. "I don't want you to take me home. You're fired." "So you told me. I'm taking you home anyway. You can fire me again when we get there." "Okay." Her head dropped to his shoulder, and she was blissfully quiet on the ride home.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

as a planned result of the separation of powers, the president must persuade Congress of the rightness of his choices, and that is the way it should be.

Jonathan Turley was even more blunt in his assessment: "Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be.

The American police are involved in psychological warfare against those Americans who don't frighten them with imposing papers and threats. It's a Victorian police force; it peers out of musty windows and wants to inquire about everything, and can make crimes if the crimes don't exist to its satisfaction.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you. Capt. Wolf Larsen

And so it came that White Fang learned that the right to punish was something the gods reserved for themselves and denied to the lesser creatures under them.

We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces. The world is ours, we are its lords, and ours it shall remain. As for the host of labor, it has been in the dirt since history began, and I read history aright. And in the dirt it shall remain so long as I and mine and those that come after us have the power. There is the word. It is the king of words—Power. Not God, not Mammon, but Power. Pour it over your tongue till it tingles with it. Power.

Well, I am going to exercise my prerogative of roaring and show you how fares nobility. Watch me.

Without them, anarchy would reign and humanity would drop backward into the primitive night out of which it had so painfully emerged.

I believe that sovereignty is the twin sister of democracy. If there's no sovereignty, there's no democracy.

Once I had left 'Twin Peaks' and started doing other shows and other movies, I kept running into, 'No, no, we can't do it this way. This is the way it has to happen.' I'm like, 'No. I've already done it, and it worked, so I don't understand what you're saying.'

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.

Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.

There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

We are a constitutional monarchy. I don't order laws, I propose them. Article 35 of our constitution states that the king can only refuse a law of parliament once, then he has to sign it - if the same law is then supported by a two-thirds majority in both houses of parliament.

Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type of deliberate and authoritative rule that I think is needed to get the job done.

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.