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Quotes About Authority

If a paycheck could change your life, do you think they'd let you have one?
~ Cory Doctorow
essential Christian beliefs are not affected by textual variants in the manuscript tradition of the New Testament.
~ Craig Blomberg
A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second...
~ Cressida Cowell
Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.
~ Cressida Cowell
You can't put': Hiccup in charge, sir, he's USELESS.
~ Cressida Cowell
She's a queen and a mother and it's a mother's job to be scary," said Wish. "Well she's very successful at her job," shivered Bodkin.
~ Cressida Cowell
Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction.
~ CrimethInc.
Who chooses what we know or what's important? I know I have to decide these things for myself.
~ Cristina García
Inés de Bobadilla, Cuba's first woman governor
~ Cristina García
I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
And I want a woman in that seat. Whether it's Alan Dixon or Joe Biden or George Bush, I'm so tired of these idiot men getting to make up the rules for the rest of us. They're not smarter. They're not nicer. They don't have better judgment. They're just men.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
No pervs allowed in the Oval Office," Donald said. "I didn't make the rules.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Messo di fronte al generale von Heunert e ai salmoni della Lapponia, egli stava dalla parte dei salmoni. Ma, in fondo, come tutti i tedeschi, giudici o no, obbediva ai generali. Il guaio di tutti i salmoni d'Europa è questo: che anche i tedeschi stanno dalla parte dei salmoni, ma obbediscono ai generali.
~ Curzio Malaparte
This meant that an object like Brillo Boxes was baptized as 'art' if accepted by museum and gallery directors and purchased by art collectors.
~ Cynthia Freeland
Griff couldn't, as Oriel could, gather men to him at a glance, seal them to him with a word. He had himself been the first gathered, the first sealed.
~ Cynthia Voigt
Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
~ Cyril Connolly
And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.
~ D. H. Lawrence
y entró en esa buena sociedad de gente del gobierno que no está a la cabeza, pero que son, o pudieran ser, el verdadero poder oculto de la nación: gente que sabe de qué habla, o habla como si lo supiera.
~ D. H. Lawrence
I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge. Look at the way things are. I'm no fucken genius or anything, but these spazzos are in charge of my every twitch. What I'm starting to think is maybe only the dumb are safe in this world, the ones who roam with the herd, without thinking about every little thing. But see me? I have to think about every little fucken thing.
~ D.B.C. Pierre
You, and rule!" she said. "You don't rule, don't flatter yourself. You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation.
~ D.H. Lawrence
You, and rule!" she said. "You don't rule, don't flatter yourself. You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation. Rule! What do you give forth of rule? Why, you're dried up! You only bully with your money
~ D.H. Lawrence
I want you to treat me nicely and respectfully. Call you 'sir', perhaps? she asked quietly. Yes, call me 'sir'. I should love it. Then I wish you would go upstairs, sir.
~ D.H. Lawrence
?nsanl?k, hele elinde bir yetkisi olan insanl?k... Ancak bir ?ey gelirdi elinden o insanl???n!
~ D.H. Lawrence