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Quotes About Authority

Go fuck yourself Judge. Motion denied. answers the judge dryly.
~ Jodi Picoult
It's just like nurses in a hospital tend to know more than the doctors most of the time; if you really want to get the answers to a question about court, you should spend more time buttering up the clerks than the judges.
~ Jodi Picoult
Professional life is like a fire hydrant. You spend all of your time putting out fires and standing your ground against the big dogs.
~ Anonymous
He that can work is a born king of something.
~ Thomas Carlyle
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
~ Liz Smith
A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
The 9/11 commission recommended the appointment of a national intelligence director with budgetary authority to better coordinate the work of the intelligence community and resolve differences.
~ Ronald Kessler
If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.
~ Dee Hock
Marriage: A community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.
~ Unknown
Its like he gave me wings and said, Its illegal to fly.
~ Unknown
I am not a player...I'm the game.
~ Unknown
You have the right to remain silent, so please SHUT UP.
~ Unknown
I like being in control. I feel many females don't like being in control because they aren't confident in what they are doing.
~ Unknown
Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.
~ Emerson
I don't follow precedent, I establish it.
~ Unknown
The word "expert" in a self description should be followed by the word 'bullsh...'
~ Unknown
He who would govern others, first should be master of himself.
~ Philip Massinger
Don't steal, the government hates competition.
~ Unknown
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
~ Philip Massinger
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.
~ Lao-Tzu
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
~ Bruno Bettelheim
I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody.
~ Claudette Colbert
You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a mans success is gauged by his self-mastery: the depth of failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.
~ Unknown