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Quotes About Authority

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
~ Baltasar Gracian
You have the power. You are the magic wand.
~ Laura Schlessinger
A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power.
~ Vladimir Voinovich
How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!
~ Marie Corelli
If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?
~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Women are not altogether in the wrong when they refuse the rules of life prescribed to the World, for men only have established them and without their consent.
~ Michel de Montaigne
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
~ Barbara Walters
There are people who don't like women holding power.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected.
~ Carolyn Warner
Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
~ Booth Tarkington, Alice Adams
There was my mom and I had a wife for a long time and now there is my fianc-e. Eileen is in a long line of women who have given me orders.
~ Jeffrey Ashby
Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.
~ Ted Turner
Decent responsible parents are a royal pain- that's how you know when you have them [such parents].
~ Laura Schlessinger
Women who have power are always feared.
~ Libba Bray
Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?
~ Roald Dahl
Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.
~ Ellen Goodman
I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
~ Callie Khouri
When you wish to subjugate a people, you have to convince them of their own inherent weakness.
~ Frederick Lenz
I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.
~ Petra Kelly
Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.
~ Patricia Arquette
I would say to women, always question what you're empowering yourself for and what are you claiming power for.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
My experience of men in cars has always been that if you don't want them to do something, they will. It is when they are behind a wheel that they most fear the control of women and children.
~ Fay Weldon
Women, children, Tyroleans and preachers want to create a new kingdom of God, but the God of their kingdom looks like women, children, preachers, and Tyrolians.
~ Franz Grillparzer
Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip
~ Friedrich Nietzsche