Quotes About Authority

Hi, my name is Jareth, and I'll be your- God" He curses as he lays his eyes on me. I raised an eyebrow. "You'll be my god? Hm...Well, we'll have to see about that. I mean, it takes a lot to my world these days.

No hay rebelión de la mujer sin crisis de poder.

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.

I call death onto those who don't know a child when they see a child. Men who think they made the world out of clay and turned it into their safe place, men who think a woman wouldn't flip the universe over and flatten them beneath it. I have enough bullets for all of them.

Privilege is the way men prime power, the world over.

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.

What is generally known as discipline in traditional schools is not activity, but immobility and silence. It is not discipline, but something that festers inside a child, arousing his rebellious feelings.

Recognizing the merits of the child does not diminish the authority of the father and the mother for when they come to realize that they are not the constructors, but merely the helpers of this construction, then they will be able to do their duty better; they will help the child with a greater vision.

A lot of wisdom should go into choosing who to love you, and more to choose who to rule you…

CIO leaders must, above all, lead. And lead does not mean manage.

Rules? Ixion is supposed to be free of rules, yet it seems as strict as Grave in its own way and more...more dangerous.

Government is nothing but the regulated injustice that every rascal has in his heart.

One benefit of being an old woman now, and moreover one who has been called a "national treasure," is that there are very few who can tell me what I may and may not write.

Are a woman's wishes only fit to be considered when blessed by a male relative?

But a man gifted with original thoughts and the power of expressing them, appears to be regarded by everyone in authority as much worse than the worst criminal, and all the 'jacks-in-office' unite to kick him to death if they can.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

There is no danger greater for the State than that of self-styled intellectuals. You would have been better off remaining illiterate. - King Hassan II of Morocco, quoted in the Preface

Dominion won by fear and secured by fear was still sweeter than any that could be got another way.

Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear.

The need for control always comes from someone that has lost it.

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.