Quotes About Authority

If the greatest danger one faces as a slave is displeasing one's masters, this is the second: pleasing them.

The keeping of secrets from adults is oft the only power a child may hope to possess.

Men will heed words spoken from one in a position of authority that they disdain from other sources.

where power intersects with pleasure, there is danger. Adepts

Not even the King is above the rule of law.

the name of the husband is one of the strongest insignia of patriarchal power

Let the lower mortals prattle.

Why do you always have to argue with me? I'm your mother and I know best. Now come along.' So

He squared up to me, hands on his hips. 'Who's telling me to get into bed? You can't boss me around. You're not my mum,' he shouted. He was only clowning around.

No, no, I'm the big sister fairy. I have to keep you in order.

Dad said I'd go to hell.

Suffice it to say that we only answer questions when the person asking has a lot of silver on the epaulettes, or around the peak of his cap.

Fear can be used in all sorts of ways to control people, and that's what he's done." They took a few

What is certain is that I am not a Marxist, as someone said a long time ago, let us recall, in a witticism reported by Engels. Must we still cite Marx as an authority in order to say "I am not a Marxist"?

Politics] is always a means of conquering others and exercising power over them.

Subtly, in any organization, religious or otherwise, solidarity becomes ossification, the faith becomes orthodoxy, and compliance becomes more important than conversion of spirit. By the time of the Reformation, Christianity had gotten to the point where authority itself had become the problem. To

As the two wardens looked on, the jailer shackled the old woman to an iron band with

Why is it, Reverend Hale, that we must always laugh at our book, but always revere yours?

the oppressive government of the rich.

STEED: But in a presidential crisis I expect him to be presidential.

Year after year one black in four throughout the general population was arrested for some trivial offense or other, and it was fortunate for them that not all police were as determined and sadistic as the team of Krause and Krog. Their like could be found in most countries; Russia, East Germany, Iran, Argentina, Brazil, all had such interrogators. But the majority of South African policemen tried to be law-abiding officers of justice; Krause and Krog were officers of terror.

But the new priest in town, this Father Ybarra, who had come north to see if the missions should be closed down, absolutely forbade her to step foot inside Santa Teresa: "This place is not for women. If God had intended you to enter these precincts, he would have made women friars.

government is very lax. None of their people want the hassle, so the old folks keep driving until you read about it in the paper:

It was language, which tyrannizes us all