Quotes About Authority

Power can be taken but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Girls need to know they can break the rules. If the nuns had told me that, I could have saved twenty years.

government with the power to forbid birth control or abortion could also enforce one or the other—but

Rauve, you son of a..."  Pagan growled in disapproval, his words punctuated by hacks of his sword. "Does...no one...heed my...commands?"  His

Just the same way the challenge has total power in the aggressor side, have total power in the defense side. Don't give the challenge any power in the defense side.

Make them honour you, fight you or tremble.

The master of life is a master of truth.

The successful use the power they think they have while the rest, resting desire the power they think they don't have.

Truth makes privilege

Use your power greatly and you may beat those with great power.

Michael I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit.

Talih onun gö?süne bir ruh koymu? ki Onu hep ç?lg?nca yönetir ara vermeden, Ve acele eden ve hemen buyuransa Atlar yeryüzünün sevinçlerini ve do?an?n yasalar?n?.

Si se tiene fuerza, se tienen derechos.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marry right and live right, our relationship will continue, notwithstanding the certainty of death and the passage of time. Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death.

She was already fierce. She required none of this nonsense, and if she'd carried a man's strength and her father's horsewhip these villains would as one be on their knees.

Chang despised authority on principle, for even when veiled by the rubric of practical necessity or the weight of tradition he could not see institutional power as anything but an expression of arbitrary personal will, and it galled him profoundly.

What if Captain Smythe did not reject his orders? What if Captain Smythe was not there at all? What if instead of soldiers they

Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it. —UNKNOWN

The point is that the Party has lost the power to control what the Chinese people believe.

the central government views itself, not competition, as the regulator of industry.