Quotes About Authority

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.

I know what is going on," said Sir. "I am the Boss! Of course I know!

As anyone who's ever been to a doctor knows, doctors are not necessarily your friends, any more than mail deliverers are you friends, or butchers are you friends, or refrigerator repair-people are you friends. A doctor is a man or woman whose job it is to make you feel better, that's all, and if you've ever had a shot you know that the statement 'Doctors can't hurt you' is simply absurd.

In my opinion, children should be seen and not heard. I'm an adult, so it follows that I should be heard and not seen. That's why I work exclusively over the intercom.

Why does anyone have a lot of rules? So they can boss people around, I guess.

Whether you have been sent to see the principle of your school for throwing wet paper towels at the ceiling to see if they stick or taken to the dentist to plead with him to hollow out one of your teeth so you can smuggle a single page of your latest book past the guards at the airport, it is never a pleasant feeling to stand outside the door of an office....

Crying is the opposite of scolding, because adults are hardly ever allowed to do it.

I refuse to argue with you, Charles! You're my partner! Your job is to iron my shirts and cook my omelettes, not boss me around!

I give up," Mr. Poe said, and coughed into his handkerchief. "Five hundred is too much to pay for a big herring statue.

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It is necessary to distinguish between the virtue and the vice of obedience.

Keith Park was a popular and persuasive man. He had quelled a near mutiny in 1918 by assembling the airmen and talking to them on random subjects and in such a monotonous voice for so long that all rebelliousness was destroyed by fatigue.

It doesn't take much to make the daily round with one's employer work smoothly. A couple of 'yessirs' when you know that 'not on your life' is the thing to say. A few expressions of doubt about things you've spent your life perfecting. Forgetting to make use of the information that negates his hastily formed but deliciously convenient theories. It doesn't take much but it takes about 98.5 per cent more than I've ever considered giving

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

Always be smarter than those who hire you

Stepping away from her husband, Marianna brushed Lauren's then Evan's cheek with kisses. "I'm going to put your father to bed before he gives everyone a raise.""I've got a raise for you all right."Marianna gasped "Joseph" at the same time Lauren squeaked "Dad", much to Joseph's amusement. With a shake of her head, her mother grabbed her father by the hand and led him away like a wayward little boy.

So long as the state exists there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there will be no state.

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.

Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

Every cook must learn to rule the State.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

I guess what happens is, if you get arrested in Town A (Philadelphia) and then Town B (San Francisco)--with a lot of publicity--then when you get to Town C they have to arrest you or what kind of sh*thouse town are they running?

It's the supression of the word that gives it the power, the violence, the viciousness.

Since he's the leader of the gang, he gets to say what the