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Quotes About Authority

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.
~ Cyprian
Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That's also the secret of why some head of states look brave!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.
~ Learned Hand
It was me, Dad, that hired Stone Cold back. Dad, it was me!
~ Shane McMahon
It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now.
~ Patton Oswalt
My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.
~ Unknown
Dad told me to stop running in circles, I couldn't, so he nailed down my other foot!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.
~ Kevin Eubanks
I recognise Santangelo's dad, who saves police brutality for when he gets to his son.
~ Melina Marchetta
My daddy was the type that if you asked him, "Dad, am I going to get off punishment soon?" - he would extend it. It was like jail.
~ Dreezy
Dads are the leaders in their homes, and our kids need leaders.
~ Greg Schiano
Get a grip, Dad. I'm not going to do anything you wouldn't do at my age.' He stands up and says, 'That's it. You're canceling this date.
~ Simone Elkeles
Woe and death to all who resist my will!
~ Wilhelm II
Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death.
~ Steven Morrissey
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.
~ George R.R. Martin
What do I care about danger? I've sent soldiers and airmen to death against the enemy - why should I be afraid?
~ Hermann Goring
Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until death. And whoever is outside his obedience is in a state of damnation.
~ St. Catherine of Siena
Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.
~ John Calvin
Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Authority forgets a dying king.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row
~ Tupac Shakur