Quotes About Authority

unquestioning obedience to "absolute" rules—turns out to be the single least productive thing we can do for our children's moral development.

1) Always question authority; (2) when in doubt, see rule 1.

you need a license to drive, have a dog, or even to fish—but they'll let anyone be a father.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

As a General Authority, it is my responsibility to preach general principles. When I do, I don't try to define all the exceptions... I only teach the general rules. Whether an exception applies to you is your responsibility. You must work out individually between you and the Lord.

You plan the wars you masters of men plan the wars and point the way and we will point the gun.

WHAT YOU ASK IS AGAINST REGULATIONS WHO ARE YOU

When one man says, "No, I won't," Rome begins to fear.

Do you think me weak, flawed? Do you hate me for setting my Inquisitorial role above the needs of one agonised being?

You have to understand the rules in the first place if you're going to break them.

It happens sometimes. A man is made chieftain and, soon all that is important to him is his status. He becomes deaf to any voice that doesn't try to soothe and cosset him. Before long, he only listens to those who tell him what he wants to hear.

Climb a mountain of bodies under heavy fire to a dead end. Why would we do that, sir? Because the Emperor tells you to.

We are mighty because we are right, Garviel. We are not right because we are mighty. Vile the hour when that reversal becomes our credo.

My psi-wave threw them all backwards violently, like the pressure blast of a hurricane. Windows shattered. They tumbled over, robes shredding, flying like dolls or desperately trying to grip onto the floor. Wystan lit a lho-stick. 'What I like about you,' he said, 'is that you don't muck around.' 'Thank you.

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

An armed man is a little republic unto himself

Nobody is more indoctrinated than the indoctrinator.

wealth is power" – not because wealth automatically gives its owner political power, but because it gives him or her control of other people's labour.

It led Smith to agree with Hobbes' phrase "wealth is power" – not because wealth automatically gives its owner political power, but because it gives him or her control of other people's labour.

There is an immutable law that wherever cops congregate, more cops must join in.

I'll whip you kids into shape." "Is that legal?" I asked.

If a teacher said they needed a kid to jump off the roof, Andrea would

PRINCIPAL SPENCE?!