Quotes About Authority

Deus e a Pátria são um time imbatível; eles quebram todos os recordes de opressão e derramamento de sangue.

El profesor señala con el dedo a un alumno y le dice: «¡Refúteme a Buñuel!» Y es cuestión de dos minutos.

Conquering cities may not be held against kings, but kicking like an ass should be.

Mirá, Nati, al que voy a echar por el tubito y listo es al perro

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

With determination and dice, I am God.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

The simple people are trash. A herd of sheep that are good for shearing, but sometimes it's more profitable to slaughter them.

When we hear these kinds of excuses from a drunk, we assume they are exactly that—excuses. We don't consider an active alcoholic a reliable source of insight. So why should we let an angry and controlling man be the authority on partner abuse?

Abuse is not his goal, but control is, and he finds himself using abuse to gain the control he feels he has a right to.

Deference refers to the abuser's entitlement to have his tastes and opinions treated as edicts.

Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved -- for it is God's teaching and not mine.

I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: "You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine."

Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience. May God help me. Amen.

The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that?

What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them.

By God's grace, I know Satan very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert the Scriptures, what will he do with my words -- or the words of others?

The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell.

Los chicos malos ya no roban bancos, ahora los compran.

La víctima, cuando siente que la autoridad la cuestiona, porque no se le cree de entrada, prefiere desistirse de la denuncia y renuncia a continuar el proceso jurídico. Le da la sensación de desprotección, de abandono, desamparo e impunidad, pues sabe que difícilmente probará el delito. En este país tiene más fuerza el dicho del agresor que el de la víctima.

En México, a las mujeres que denuncian les queda claro que el ministerio público no les cree, que no es su defensor y que está a favor del agresor. Estas actitudes producen un ciclo de revictimización de la denunciante y siente mucho temor porque percibe que no se valora la injusticia que se cometió en su contra. El Estado promueve la denuncia del delito y luego maltrata a la víctima.

In fact, I liked teaching because I liked telling other people what to do. In those days it seemed clearer to me than it does now that if I did something a certain way, it had to be right for other people, too. I was so convinced of it that my students were convinced, too.

They do sometimes protest...At these times, she sounds authoritative. But she has no authority.