Quotes About Authority

After all, if the insult to me is pointing out that I am mortal, then this is my riposte: I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them.

Maybe I believe that it's time for Elfhame to be ruled by a queen.

I think they suspected my chief qualification for the position was my ability to lie for him.

No," Vivi told him in her somber little voice. "I'm never going anywhere with you." "I'm your father," he told her, his voice harsh, rising like the crack of a lash. "You are my heir and my blood, and you will obey me in this as in all things.

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one," Vivi says. "Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

Cardan puts up a hand. 'No, no, enough. It's all too tedious to explain. I declare this meeting at an end.' His fingers make a flicking gesture towards the door. 'Leave us. I tire of the lot of you.' I have a long way to go before I can manage that level of shameless arrogance.

Power is infectious. Power is greedy.

I have seen what power does to people. And I have seen how those who pledge loyalty come to resent their oaths and wish for the destruction of the one who holds them. I was never less free than when I ruled.

I live here, too, and I know the rules. Perhaps I even know them better than you since you were born into them, but I had to learn. Perhaps I know them better than you because you have greater leeway to break them.

We're here to take Suren,' Revindra goes on. 'And we will take it ill if you attempt to prevent us.' The gaze that Oak slants towards me is as cold as the one he bestowed the ogres. 'Oh,' he says. 'I wouldn't dream of stopping you.

He pushes himself to standing and offers me his arm. 'Come, let us charm and confound our subjects.

When there is a lot of power concentrated in one place, there are plenty of scraps to fight over.

You may command the sky,' the horned man in the golden scale mail returns. 'But alas, we are here on the ground.

I am kind of in control and out of control at the same time.

El poder es mucho más fácil de adquirir que de mantener.

Poder. El poder es la capacidad para conseguir lo que quieres. Es la capacidad para convertirse en el que toma las decisiones. ¿Y como se consigue ese poder? El poder se consigue por la fuerza.

Get down on your knees, Cardan says, looking insufferably pleased with himself. His fury transmuted into gloating. "Beg. Make it pretty. Flowery. Worthy of me.

Lying on his bed feels like wiping my dirty peasant feet on the throne.

True power isn't granted. True power can't be taken away.

One of his primary duties as the High King appears to be reminding her she isn't personally responsible for solving every tedious problem and carrying out every tedious execution in all of Elfhame. He wouldn't mind causing a little torment here or there, of a non-murdery sort, but her view of their positions seems overburdened with chores.

It's ridiculous the way everyone acts like killing a king is going to make someone better at being one,' Vivi says. 'Imagine if, in the mortal world, a lawyer passed the bar by killing another lawyer.

You ought not to be here tonight, little ant,' he says, letting go of me. 'Go back to the palace.

Cuando hay mucho poder concentrado en un mismo sitio, hay un montón de sobras por las que pelearse.

It turns out that men have more authority, even when they're not real.