Quotes About Authority

The first week I was here, a girl got canned for humming an Erasure song while she was churning butter. It's like, yeah, Erasure is historic, but not historic enough.

There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

But I don't want to go back. Not yet. Just because. Because every once in a while, somebody brings me my lunch tray and my meds and he has a black eye or his forehead is swollen with stitches, and he says: We miss you Mr. Durden. Or somebody with a broken nose pushes a mop past me and whispers: Everything's going according to the plan. Whispers We're going to break up civilization so we can make something better out of the world. Whispers We look forward to getting you back.

She'd exchanged her dreams of her parents for the dogma of her instructors, but neither of those outlooks were innately her own.

Jump to one time, late one night, driving between Nowhere, Wyoming, and WhoKnowsWhere, Montana, when Seth says how your being born makes your parents God. You owe them your life, and they can control you. "Then puberty makes you Satan," he says, "just because you want something better." J

Perseguís a la gente de quien dependéis, preparamos vuestras comidas, recogemos vuestras basuras, conectamos vuestras llamadas, conducimos vuestras ambuláncias, y os protegemos mientras dormís, así que no te metas con nosotros.

The goal was to teach each man in the project that he had the power to control history. We, each of us, can take control of the world.

The truth is there's always been someone to tell me what to do. The church. The people who I work for. The caseworker. And I can't stand the idea of being alone. I can't bear the thought of being free. Survivor

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your own rules.

He'd never anticipated that power would be this lonely.

Ana babalar, kitlelerin uyuÅŸturucusudur!

A fin de crear una raza de amos a partir de una raza de esclavos, dice el señor Whittier, a fin de enseñar a un grupo controlado de gente a crear sus propias vidas, Moisés tuvo que ser un cabrón.

La belleza es poder, igual que el dinero es poder y que un arma cargada es poder.

Sie sind glücklich, wie Menschen glücklich sind, wenn sie Bücher verbrennen oder Könige enthaupten. Die sind rechtschaffen.

But not to worry, he says. I have a badge and a gun and a penis.

C'erano così tante leggi e, poco ma sicuro, almeno un miliardo di modi in cui le si poteva infrangere.

Primero los padres te dan la vida, pero luego intentan imponerte la suya.

People accepted the new leaders because people wanted leaders and the former were dead.

People will jump through hoops if you just make them feel like a god.

Thanks, Darth Obvious. Or is it Emperor Palpable?

If one wants power, one must take it.

Mmph! Mmph." Translation: The Emperor will have your heads for this.

The woman standing there is in a crisp admiral's uniform. She's dark-skinned, with cold brown eyes to match.