Quotes About Authority

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.

The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.

The practice of arbitrary imprisonments have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.

I recognize no empire of this present age.

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

I think that there shouldn't be an age limit to become a boss, so having that element is really important.

In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

Rome alone can resist Rome.

You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.

Houllier couldn't deal with players expressing any anger or questioning any of his decisions

An infinitely greedy sovereign is afoot in the universe, staking his claims.

The trouble was the familiar one: too much power, too little knowledge.

The most appropriate governmental powers are negative-those, that is, that protect the small and the weak from the great and powerful, not those by which the government becomes the profligate, ineffectual parent of the small and weak after it has permitted the great and powerful to make them helpless.

Whereas his father only ruled him, Aunt Molly owned him outright, at least when he was in the house where she could get at him.

wanting good government in their states, they first established order in their own families; wanting order in the home, they first disciplined themselves . .

You are not a pawn in the chessgame of life, you are the mover of the pieces.

She drove her chariot like a centurion.

People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.

There is no natural order. Only rules that one race invents to make the other serve its uses.