Quotes About Authority

Do you remember the hardest lesson of power?" "Knowing when not to use it?

She'd grown up in a strict household; she'd gone insane with freedom the minute she ran away and got out on her own.

I'm afraid it isn't good news. The Council seems to have gone quite mad.

All of my base are belong to me.

Mab narrowed her eyes, and a little smile graced her lips. "Impudent," she said. "It's sweet on you.

This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears.

Can't you, like, enhance these?" "No," Gary said flatly. "Because I don't have imaginary movie powers.

I think men who lust for power are capable of almost anything.

Now that I've got this to keep me safe off the island," I said very quietly, "what's to stop me from having Alfred drop you into a cell right this second, and solving my problems myself?" "I am," Mab said. She gave me a very small, very chill smile, and held up her finger. There was a tiny droplet of my blood upon it, scarlet against her pale skin.

I parked somewhere where I would probably get a ticket. I planned to ignore it. Anarchists have a much easier time finding parking spots.

This is why you're all kernels and I'm a major general. 'Cause you got corn silk in your ears.

Because I know my daughter, she said. And I know very well that the only way to absolutely ensure that she pursues any given course of action is for me to forbid her to do so.

I will not live in a realm where calculations of power supersede justice and law - regardless of how inconvenient that may be to the Crown.

The council is old school. Really, really old school.

rocket launcher like it was a coat. Karrin let him, giving him an edged smile that she directed past him, to the shadows where the Genoskwa lurked. "I didn't kill the accountant," she said quietly. "Nicodemus said not to." That surprised me a little. If she wanted to hide herself from me, she didn't need to go to the effort of lying. All she had to do was stay silent. "He said that to all of us," I said.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 452, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

The government isn't the mob, Harry. Aren't they? I asked. Pay them money every year to protect you, and God help you if you don't.

The Wardens put on their own epic production of Fahrenheit 451, Bob said. They spent about twenty years finding and destroying copies.

I'll talk you through, Kincaid said. Dresden, better take her gun and cover us. Hey, I said. I'm in charge here. Kincaid, talk her through it. Murphy, give me your gun so I can cover you.

Wait. You work for me?" "I prefer to think of it as managing your incompetence

As a rule, people aren't good at handling power. And the second you think you're better at controlling your power than anyone else, you've already taken the first step.

If you know that much," I said, "if you are that powerful, why did you hire a bodyguard to bring you here?" "My feet don't reach the pedals.

Sit down," she said

It's hard, really, really hard, in fact damn near impossible, to exercise power without it having some unexpected consequences. Doesn't matter what kind of power it is—magic, muscle, political office, electricity, moral authority. Use any of it, and you're going to find out that as a result, things happen that you didn't expect.