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Quotes About Authority

You can't order me away, you pissant human--" "I just did." Kas swept past him...
~ Susan Scott, Dragons Will Fall
Father, what are you to do now?"Triton's sneer grew scarier. "She broke the law." turning away from the terrified faces of his daughters. "She must die.
~ Unknown
Yeah, Horemheb, you are under my command once more. You might be the pharaoh, but I am Tutankhamun! - Tut Reborn by Cyci Cade
~ Unknown
You don't just... just float someone in the air like that!" she shouted, so beside herself she was almost frenzied."Why? Is there some human law against it?
~ Unknown
if anyone comes into my domain without explicit permission, I'm going to impale you in a way that will give you the very best idea of what it feels like to be a corn dog.
~ Dannika Dark, Keystone
As a little boy of eleven I entered the Cadet Corps. I was not particularly eager to become a Cadet, but my father wished it. So my wishes were not consulted.
~ Manfred von Richthofen
For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it was the land of Father Says.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
~ Zebulon Pike
A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
~ Michael Bergin
Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.
~ Hans-Hermann Hoppe
The severity of the master is more useful than the indulgence of the father.
~ Saadi
I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.
~ Pope Leo I
No person shall preach without the permission of his Superior. All preachers shall explain the Gospel according to the Fathers. They shall not explain futurity or the times of Antichrist!
~ Pope Leo X
Jesus refused to produce a sign for Herod because it was not the Father's will.
~ John Hagee
My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.
~ Lord Mountbatten
Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
~ Charles Peguy
Our father in heaven governs the affairs of men by placing specific individuals upon the earth to lead at specific times and inspiring and directing them.
~ Harold B. Lee
I could pull all kinds of games on my mother. I couldn't pull any games on my father.
~ John Henrik Clarke
My father would have been made a bishop much earlier than he was had it not been for me and my image.
~ Grace Jones
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
~ George Herbert
Now, when Luke Skywalker unmasks his father, he is taking off the machine role that the father has played. The father was the uniform. That is power, the state role.
~ Joseph Campbell
I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.
~ Galileo Galilei
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased
~ John James Audubon
A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.
~ Pierre Corneille