Quotes About Authority

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

The client is not always right.

I never stole nuttin' unless it began with an 'A' - A truck, a car, a payroll...!

When I came into the league, once a team drafted you, they owned you forever. If they didn't like the clothes you wore, or the car you drove, they could blackball you.

Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

Are you coming along peaceful-like, or am I going to have to hog-tie you and put you in the car?

I've got a fleet of cars and I've never had a driving license, ever.

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

He who has the bigger stick has the better chance of imposing his definitions of reality.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

I control the world so long as I can name it.

I always listen to everything you say. You have very authoritative hair.

Remember, you will never change what you permit, and never challenge what you allow.

Stenditi al sole. Abdica, e sii il re di te stesso.

What the English government and investors expected from their colony in America was a strong return for their past investments, accompanied by an unquestioning obedience.

was ruled on behalf of the king by a shire-reeve whose name became sheriff.

The parish priests themselves were often illiterate, and many complaints were made about their drunkenness and violence.

That concept is more properly known as 'caesaro-papism'; the king was now both Caesar and pope.

The rector of Manchester invited a local couple, with their daughter, to dinner. The rector's servants seized the daughter, broke two of her ribs, and then deposited her in the rector's bed; he had sex with her that night, but the unfortunate girl died from her injuries a month later.

but, for most, the practice of religion was determined by custom and regulated by authority.

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