Quotes About Authority

it is technically a Category Two SoulCrime to remove or conceal a Ministry of Pain–assigned famulus from your immediate person.

it is technically a Category Two SoulCrime to remove or conceal a Ministry of Pain–assigned famulus from your immediate person." Lightning flared again as, muttering and mouthing, Benji Dog was stuffed back into Courtney Hall's bag.

You pay taxes, but the law doesn't allow you any say in how they are spent, let alone the option to withhold them when you want to influence Government policy.

Little men, stuck in little positions of little authority, are always the worst.

It's all just policy to you, isn't it?" Rebus said. "No right and wrong, legal and illegal, no fair and corrupt … just politics." "Listen to yourself, man," Sir Iain Hunter spat. "What are you, some Old Testament prophet? Who gives you the right to hold the scales?" He dug the tip of his umbrella into the ground

partner ACC Colin Carswell based at police HQ Sir David Strathern chief constable of Lothian and Borders Police Jean Burchill Rebus's current partner, museum curator

Maybe you'd best mention Steele and Edwards to your boss.' 'Why?' 'So he can pull them in for questioning, have a bit of fun with them.' 'You think I'd be that vindictive?' 'If not, I didn't teach you much.

parked and placed the POLICE sign on the dashboard.

Son, there is no reason except a stupid one for anybody to project on that screen anything that will worry him or dull that vital edge. After all, we are the absolute bosses of that whole theatre and show in our minds. We even write the script. So always write positive, dynamic scripts and show only the best movies for you on that screen whether you are pimp or priest.

One of those arrogant repeaters went to the hole for having a sassy look in his eyes. The charge was 'visual insubordination.

The main thing I learned about "Cop Killer" is this: when you inject white kids with Black rage—and you do it through something as seductive and persuasive as rock 'n' roll—that's dangerous. To the people in authority, that's always going to be seen as a threat.

One afternoon, they called me into the warden's office at Corcoran. The warden wanted to talk to me personally. I was nervous, because

Saying of the Prophet The Judge A man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

For every Pharoah there is a Moses.

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?

The intellect is not sovereign: knowledge is.

The thief who has not been caught is a king.

Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.

The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza Bribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.