Quotes About Authority

The rules are the rules for a reason. Being a Shadowhunter, a good one, is about more than just training fourteen hours a day and knowing sixty-five ways of killing a man with salad tongs.

Careful, boy," rumbled Gwyn. "You have your Laws and we have ours. The difference is only that we do not pretend ours are not cruel.

Well you can go ahead and hand your head out the window if you feel like it" "I'm a werewolf not a golden retriever

Ducks, embrace me as your king!"--James Herondale.

Sed lex dura lex," said Jace automatically. "The Law is hard, but it is the Law.

Stupid people make bad rulers.

From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen.

From the day I could talk, I was ordered to listen.

I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled.

You can talk to me, too." "I do!" "But you say so little." "Women talk a great deal to one another. All this gossip and such. I am not a woman." "What do you do when you have to command your men?" She inquired, exasperated. "Grunt?

He stepped back, cursing. "Hey, haven't you heard of the First Amendment? You jerk!" The security guard, still gunning like a mad scientist, said over the loudspeaker, "Sure, you little shit, and Prince Charles is a Tampax

YOU ARE THE CHIEF.

In France, everyone in the family has a job. The parent's role is to be the chief, and the children have the job of obeying their leader. French children are raised with this in mind, so there is much less debate and resistance.

The key to hell picks all locks

I might have felt unimportant pitted against the awesome might of the mountains. I did not. Rather, on that mountain top I found something important that I had never known before: an awareness of a vital connection between me and the Authority behind all this beauty.

But some people don't want you to do what you think is right. Some people want you to do what they think is right.

This was the other thing Grace had noticed about grown-ups. In addition to being afraid of each other, it was hard to wring any information out of them. At least, if it was information about them. If it was about what kids ought to do, then they were nothing but words.

She still didn't like the idea. But she wouldn't question me again. She placed the judgment of her humans ahead of her own, as a matter of courtesy and pride, even if she was always right and we were always wrong. Good dogs are like that.

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control. That seem to hit a note in you?

Sometimes when a kid's got nobody really running things in his life, he'll decide to take over and take charge of everything. Otherwise the world just seems to be spinning out of control.

But some people don't want you to do what you think is right. Some people want you to do what they think is right. Anyway,

Therefore, in accordance with our laws, I sentence you, Jenna of Saura, to death." Her

I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.

Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.