Quotes About Authority

like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.

Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all.

And of course it shouldnt come as a surprise to find that people in rubber rooms have a worldview at odds with that of the people who put them there.

They came three times for the old man. At first it was just the Sheriff and Gifford. They were one foot up the porch steps when he swung the door open and threw down on them and they could see the mule ears of the old shotgun laid back viciously along the locks. They turned and went back down the yard, not saying anything or even looking back, and the old man closed the door behind them.

Üç hafta önce s?radan bir vatandaÅŸt?m. Dokuz-sekiz aras? çal???yordum. Daha doÄŸrusu sekiz-dört. Bir olay oldu mu oluyor iÅŸte. Sana sormuyor ve iznini istemiyor.

Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

My job is to take care of you. I was appointed to do that by God. I will kill anyone who touches you. Do you understand?

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

The kid looked at Tobin. What's he a judge of?

The man looked up wearily. You aint callin me a liar are ye son? I aint ye son. How old are you? That's some more of your business. How old are you? He's fifteen. You hush your damn mouth. He turned to the man. He dont speak for me, he said. He's done spoke. I was fifteen year old when I was first shot. I aint never been shot. You aint sixteen yet neither.

Might does not make right, said Irving.

He'd of took you boy. Like a bride to the altar.

This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination.

Are you really going to catch us and take us back to Esther? We don't belong to her, you know." Embarrassed, Victor stared at his shoes. "Well, children all have to belong to somebody," he muttered. "Do you belong to someone?" "That's different." "Because you're a grown-up?

Power. Like wine when you have it. Like poison when you lose it.

only the powerful were hated, and that was what he was meant to be in this world. Powerful.

Det var kejsarinnans far som hade stiftat en lag, att föremål, djur och människor med magiska egenskaper var skyldiga att rapporteras. För det var ju inte lätt att regera i en värld där ett guldträd kunde göra en tiggare till kung och talande djur viskade rebelliska visdomsord till skogsarbetarna.

Por ansiar tanto pela proteção dele, talvez a mãe tenha confundido a fúria sanguinária com autoridade, e a brutalidade com força.

Resa stroked the dried flower-heads. 'They obey you,' she said to the Prince, when the women had gone again. 'Why?' 'Oh, because they've chosen me as their leader,' replied the Prince. 'And because I'm a very good knife-thrower.

I hate that, I said. It's like there's no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It's the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger?

Anytime someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you and doesn't give you a key, that lock is not there for your benefit.

I'd rather be a criminal underground than a secret police.

A 'job creator' is someone who figures out how to threaten you with starvation unless you do something you don't want to do.