Quotes About Authority

Didn't the stupid man realize that he no longer had the power to send anyone to their room?

She looked at her nine guests, all of whom had their eyes obediently closed as they waited her instructions. Their destinies were in her hands. She was going to change them not just temporarily, but forever.

She could bully anyone into buying anything.

She was all-powerful when she knew without doubt that she was in the right. But how often did you know for sure that you were right? Hardly ever.

You're having one of those days of accumulating misery when you argue violently with someone in a position of power: a bank teller, a dry cleaner, a three-year-old.

Anyway, men don't rule the world. We have a female prime minister. And you rule your world. You rule the Fitzpatrick household.

How dare this smug little plastic stick have the power to decide her future?

They needed to stay secret to keep their power.

Got it, by Jove! We'll build a great big bloody wall and keep the buggers in!" Presumably he hadn't

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had 600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

Im a boss, your man is just an employee mami. Let me upgrade you.

You aint gotta vote for us cuz we aint neva runnin.

Nigga we in charge, baby put me in charge, and Im just murdering niggas free of charge.

Too much money aint enough money, you know the feds listenin. Nigga what money.

Im so official, all I need is a whistle.

Crown fit me good, I aint even got to try on.

Sometimes you can pick who buys you, and for how much. That's what power really is.

A yellow oilskin jumped from a scooter, and walked purposefully towards him, notebook in hand. He couldn't have been more than eighteen, his face spotted adolescent red. 'You can't park there.' There was righteous indignation in his voice. ?Bill flashed his ID. 'Get lost or I'll book you!' ?The red blotches met one another in embarrassment. ?'Sorry officer.' ?He retreated to his scooter.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life

No man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle--the sheet anchor of American republicanism.