Quotes About Authority

Authority is just and faithful in all matters of promise-keeping; it is also considerate, and that is why a good mother is the best home-ruler.

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church.

If people think I'm just the boss's daughter, they're deceived.

The best combination of parents consists of a father who is gentle beneath his firmness, and a mother who is firm beneath her gentleness.

Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.

What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.

Daughter am I in my mother's house, but mistress in my own.

it is the liberty that is the mother, not the daughter, of order.

Living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban. A mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

If kids can forget their own mothers but still have a sense of comrade Lenin, then Soviet power really is here to stay!

My mother's five foot two and, I'll be honest with you, she's the only person I'm scared of.

My mother was pretty strict. I hated it, but maybe it made me a bit more sensible.

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?

So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left —" "Don't talk to your mother like that.

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

Can't this thing go any faster?" Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. "I cannot control traffic." You both sound like my mother," I said. Shut up!" they both said in union.

I'm your mother. I see all. Hear all. Know all.

Mothers, wives and maids, These be the tools with which priests manage men.

You can build a throne with bayonets, but it's difficult to sit on it.

The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.