Quotes About Authority

She didn't know that Indian women had more power and authority than white women, a fact detailed in captivity stories.

as a week. She's been spanked with a spatula, slapped across

Let us kill all the lawyers!

There were torments in the Himalayas, windspouts in the Grand Canyon, and Judges of the Supreme Court got into sacred rages. What could little boys do, too, about differences between their hearthstones, Mother and Father?

I'm an old woman, your mother's an old woman, so I'll be an old woman, and I'll do what I please.

Le mystère de l'Autre se trouve résolu. L'Autre c'est celui que l'Un désigne comme tel. L'Un c'est celui qui a le pouvoir de distinguer, de dire qui est qui : qui est « Un », faisant partie du « Nous », et qui est « Autre » et n'en fait pas partie ; celui qui a le pouvoir de cataloguer, de classer, bref de nommer. (p. 19)

You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules.

The bottom line is, you cannot be a producer unless you understand that it's all your fault.

Sólo los políticos se arrogan el derecho a condonar o perdonar en nombre de todos, cosa inconcebible para un crimen de masas o un genocidio.

It is most certainly not the function of the Holy See to introduce Church reforms. The first duty of the Pope is to act as primary bishop, to watch over the traditions of the Church—her dogmatic, moral and liturgical traditions."17

To police is not to conquer, to police is to remind people there are rules that if followed benefit all.

Daddy," said the toddler, now seething with righteous indignation, "you are a poo-poo head!" Feigning outrage, JFK lowered his voice. "John," he said, "no one calls the President of the United States a poo-poo head.

Oderint dum metuant." "You're going to have to translate that for me. I didn't go to Gratin." "It's Groton. Means 'Let them hate, so long as they fear.' Cato.

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.

In so far as a military force has as its aim the defeat of other military forces within a given territory it is acting to create a monopoly on organized violence — a defining feature of the state. Is it possible to create a truly anti-authoritarian military structure that corresponds with the relative decentralism of a libertarian society and that is able to defend that society from external (or internal) military threats?

Seyyed Hassan Modarres: "However good the guarddog is, it stops being useful the moment it bites the hands of its master's child, and must be banished

He ran Iran, which is a big and complicated country, wearing a pair of pyjamas.

I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.

To be a son or daughter of God also means you are royalty. This is the greatest of privileges, but it is also an awesome responsibility. If you are truly thankful to God and want to please Him with all your heart, you must do more than just recognize your own authority. You must use it. He asks you to give love as freely as you have received it— not just to those who deserve it but also to everyone He puts in front of you.

Ask of me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession. —PSALM 2:8

There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and Emma did make. This was well known among his children. In 1855, when Lenny was about five, Charles walked in to find his son jumping up and down and tumbling all over a new sofa. 'Oh Lenny, Lenny,' Charles said. 'You know it is against all rules.' 'Then,' Lenny said to his papa, 'I think you'd better go out of the room.' And so Charles did.

Soll ich, weil's Brauch ist, ein Stück Eisen stecken in das nächste Fleisch oder ins übernächste, mich dran zu halten, weil die Welt sich dreht? Herr, brich mir das Genick im Sturz von einer Bierbank.

Bees are a good omen to Kings, for they signify an obsequious people.

The new camp commander's] first order was that our pink triangles should be replaced by new ones that were almost double in size. And over the triangle a yellow stripe would be sewn, 2 centimeters wide and 12 centimeters long. "That's so I can recognize you filthy queer scum before you get close," he explained with a nasty smile.