Quotes About Authority

Laws were made to be broken.

After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira

People with power always take advantage of those without power.

Do you think it could be that those in charge of the guilds keep the system in operation after it has outlived its original purpose? It seems to me that the system works by suppression of knowledge. I don't see what that achieves. It has made me very discontented, and I'm sure I'm not alone.

I doubt that the men would lift a finger to save him from the hanging he so justly deserves.

The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property owned by primitive Gods and incompetent governments.

I had learned very early that not getting caught was just about the solution to every problem. If you were caught then those who hadn't yet been caught had to make an example of you, unless of course you knew the right people.

only two individuals in the world whose mere announced arrival guaranteed pandemonium on the streets: the Pope and Mick Jagger.

The path of scientific discovery in U.S. communication research was not decided in advance by the government or anyone else, of course. Although government funding did not determine what could be said by social scientists, it did play a major role in determining who would do the "authoritative" talking about communication and an indirect role in determining who would enjoy access to the academic media necessary to be heard by others in the field.

The reverence accorded to the composer's score suggests that it is a sacred object, which is not to be tampered with, whose authority over the actions of all the musicians playing here tonight is absolute, which commands absolute stillness and silence from those devotees who have assembled to hear it performed.

The classic authority has been Alexander Hislop's Two Babylons, published in 1883. A modern update by Dave Hunt, A Woman Rides the Beast, is well documented and an essential addition to the serious student's library.)

God is jealous of His unique prerogatives. His purpose is authentication, not for us to indulge in divination.

Voltaire gave us his classic summary: "It was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire." Its legacy, however, endured. The ancient obsession with Italy, the costly conflicts with the papacy, and the continuous resistance of German nobles to any strong central authority had made the empire essentially ungovernable for more than five centuries.

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Laws are silent in times of war.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong.

The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.

She could Captain to his Your Majesty any time.

If I could destroy the world, don't you think I could fight off the queen of the Fells?" Crow snorted.