Quotes About Authority

From now on the only times you will open your mouth here in the presence of a man will be to cry out or to caress." So

Tú confundes el amor con la obediencia. A mí me obedecerás sin amarme y sin que yo te ame.

Aquel al que se espera, porque se le espera, ya está presente, ya se muestra dueño y señor.

You're confusing love and obedience. You'll obey me without loving me, and without my loving you." With

Tuhan maha kuasa. Kalau Dia membatasi diri-Nya hanya dengan melakukan apa-apa yang baik, Dia tidak bisa disebut Maha Kuasa; itu berarti Dia hanya menguasai satu bagian alam semesta, dan ada orang lain yang lebih berkuasa daripada-Nya, yang mengawasi dan menilai tindakan-tindakan-Nya.

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of.

Fear again. If you want to control someone, all you have to do is to make them feel afraid.

The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.

It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.

People listen and accept because they have no option. The Super-class rules the world; their arguments are subtle, their voices soft, their smiles discreet, but their decisions are final. They know. They accept or reject. They have the power. And power doesn't negotiate with anyone, only with itself. However, all is not lost. In the world of fiction and in the real world, there is always a hero.

He understood that, contrary to what most people think, total power means total slavery.

Society had more and more rules, and laws that contradicted the rules, and new rules that contradicted the laws. People felt too frightened to take even a step outside the invisible regulations that guided everyone's lives.

The humility of a warrior is not the same humility as that of a servile man. The warrior does not lower his head to anyone, and nor does he allow anyone to bow before him. The servile man, on the other hand, kneels before anyone he believes to be more powerful, and demands that the people under his command behave in a similar fashion before him.

Son égale ! Mais comment ? Ne suis-je pas sa femme ? Quel autre que lui pourrait me diriger ? N'est-il pas mon maître par la loi ?

I would ask my teacher a question, Yehonala said. Ask, Lady Miao replied. She was brushing fine quick strokes upon a large sheet of paper spread upon a square table which the eunuch had brought to her side. When may I paint a picture of my own? Yehonala asked. Her teacher held her hand poised for an instant and cast a sidelong look from her narrowed eyes. When I can no longer command you.

They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none could hold her back.

Who rules well is always hated.

When there were none but these two left in the hall, Wang the Tiger leaned forward out of his carven seat and he said in a hard, hoarse voice, Woman, you are free. Choose where you will go and I will send someone to take you there. And she answered simply, with all the boldness gone out of her, except that she could look at him in the eyes while she said it, I have chosen already. I am your bondswoman.

if China is not our suzerain!

rulers anywhere are always the first to fly, and the people must stay behind to be steadfast. And the noise of the battle grew more strong, hour by hour.

One would have said he was his son's servant rather than his father.

Now although it is said that lords of war should be subservient in a nation to the civil governors of the people, it is a thing known and proved that the power goes always to the armed man and the man with weapons, and how can a weaponless man, even though he has the right, oppose a man of war in the same region with him, who has soldiers to his command?

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.