Quotes About Authority

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyo but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number wh obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

Power does not make safe. History murders the children of weak rulers.

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. —CONRIYAN PROVERB   When

Where power was perceived, power was given. For his entire life Conphas had been surrounded by tutors.

Above all the mighty detest change.

This one thing every tyrant will tell you: nothing saves more lives than murder.

You realized those truths that cut against the interests of the powerful were called lies, and that those lies that served those interests were called truths.

A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken.

Power, she had come to realize, had the insidious habit of inserting others between you and your tasks, rendering your limbs little more than decorative mementoes of a more human past.

Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A

Where power was perceived, power was given.

Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. —CONRIYAN PROVERB

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God's Word is the test.

So Miss Curdy said I had to be punished. She gave me a choice of punishments. One: I could come into the gym after school every day and inflate all the basketballs — by mouth — until my head exploded. Or two: I could coach the first-grade soccer team. I chose number two. The wrong choice.

The Bible was not given to replace the supernatural or miraculous; it was given to correct abuses.

Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle of something you just knew they'd consider wrong. Or at least risky.

Myrnin said softly. And how is it that you do not understand that HERE, in THIS place, this girl belongs to me, not to you?

All right, he said. Since you ask so nicely. I wasn't asking. I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it clear.

News flash, lady. There are no queens anymore," Shane said. He loaded shells in a shotgun and snapped it shut, then searched for a place to strap it on that didn't interfere with the flamethrower. "No queens, no kings, no emperors. Not in America. Only CEOs. Same thing, but not so many crowns.

Who's your daddy?' Myrnin stared at him as if he'd gone completely mental. ' Excuse me?

I have permission to live off campus." She didn't say from whom, because it was primarily herself.

We had this talk," she said. "You may be dead sexy, and I mean, like, really dead and really sexy, but you don't get to tell me what to do. Right? And no head-shrinker stuff, either, or I swear to God, I'll pack my shit and move!