Quotes About Authority

When you take charge of your own narrative, it gives you a handle on it.

Simply put, the Internet undermines the ability of an institution to control its own narrative.

I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

We have to be a nation of laws.

Donald Trump is President of the United States and his National Security Council works for him. If he wants to fire someone, so be it.

I've been the captain at Ajax and once for the national team - it's nice and makes you an important player.

In the national team, the armband always goes to the player with the most caps.

I think players of the national team are not entitled to make an opinion about who is making the team and who is not. At least in my days it was like that.

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.

Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

Power is a poison. It does not matter who wields it. The rebel, for this reason, is an eternal heretic. He or she will never fit into any system. The rebel stands with the powerless. There will always be powerless people. There will always be injustice. The rebel will always be an outsider.

the awards and prominent positions that come with bowing before authority mean nothing to the rebel, who understands that virtue is not rewarded. The rebel expects nothing and gets nothing. But for the rebel, to refuse to struggle, to refuse to rebel, is to commit spiritual and moral suicide.

Putin's influence in St. Petersburg, however, did not stem solely from his regulatory authority.

The state has the right to expect entrepreneurs to observe the rules of the game," Putin explained in July 1999.

I never been one to favor laws.

No one plays me, 'Lion'. That's no secret. No one gets into my head unless I let them. And just so we understand one another... Here's the deal . You work for me now.

I am not scared of you. I am scared only of Headmistress. She trained me since birth. She sent me here from Dark Room to kill your vice president to delay Key Treaty. I cannot fail her.

Let's face it: America is full of borderline, petty despots. They gravitate toward work as police officers, security gaurds, & supervisory bureaucrats like firemen, welfare case workers, and school principles.

It's all for the glory of the Empire, honey, and don't you forget it.

Even here, even now, one did not joke about the Emperor.

Object again and I will not take it well. Vol'jin and his loa named me the warchief of the Horde. And as warchief of the Horde, I decide what is important to reveal—and when and to whom. Is that understood?

History taught that those who had power were generally loath to relinquish any of it unless they were forced to do so.