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Quotes About Authority

Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof.
~ Nicolaus Copernicus
I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.
~ Ahmet Necdet Sezner
I don't like laughing at people unless they're in a privileged position or if they're in authority. If it's poor people or people who live on the outskirts or on the margins, or the underdog, I'd rather be laughing with them.
~ Taika Waititi
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
~ Thomas Sowell
I have now established myself in a most enviable manner. Those who require something of me must seek me out - I remain apart. I work for no one unless he is a high-ranking personality or a friend.
~ Francisco Goya
People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.
~ Alex Gibney
It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.
~ Zig Ziglar
Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
~ Dan Phillips
You don't talk to Richard Petty unless he talks to you.
~ Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Women, by nature, want to be dominated.
~ Jayne Mansfield
Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.
~ Minna Antrim
...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.
~ Aldous Huxley
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.
~ John Mason Brown
Every injustice that has ever been fastened upon women in a Christian country has been "authorized by the Bible" and riveted and perpetuated by the pulpit.
~ Helen H. Gardener
men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.
~ Helen Gahagan Douglas
One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
~ John McGraw
[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.
~ Madame de Stael
I want a man with nuclear power.
~ Carla Bruni
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
~ James Dobson
Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.
~ Mary Daly
Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the back of your neck stands up it is because you are fighting your role in the scripture.
~ Mark Driscoll
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes.
~ Aeschylus
What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.
~ Sinead O'Connor