Quotes About Authority

You sure you can handle big woman chat, pickney? You sure you ready for that journey? You think good before you answer. Because some people about to forget that me be the head bloodcloth nigger in here. Now, go peel two potato and don't draw me tongue out in this place.

TRACKER: It was the year your most excellent King shat his most excellent life out in the most excellent shit pit. INQUEST: Speaking ill of the King is punishable by death in the South Kingdom. TRACKER: He's a corpse, not a king.

whenever you hold a gun, it's really the gun that's holding you.

Then the white man talk about how some people trying to use smooth talk to win people over and how totalitarianism always happens with consent and we nod like we understand.

Gun Court lockup. He would still be there if Daddy didn't

the policeman move up the line saying, You can't fuck, go home. You can't fuck neither remove youself. You look like you can fuck, stay. You go, you go. Hold on, hold on now, you move like is you the one who getting the fucking. Batty boy, remove youself, and you, you better stay.

Little pussy like me still have bigger cock than the two of them, she say. She pull the gag out of Sacco mouth. —What you gonna do, Miss

To be a man you do as man do. Master one thing and you can fail at everything else, for to be a man is to fail at everything else. Here is the one thing. What men do in all things, more than anything, is take up space, whether he be priest, king, beggar, or hunter. Whether he be living or dead. More space than he need, and more space than he will use.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

If men wish to control their women, they must find a way to control midwives.

When I give an order, Evangeline , I expect it to be obeyed. I don't expect it to be questioned. Or ignored. Or embellished with hare-brained notions. A ship runs on discipline. My discipline. As my father is fond of saying, on board this ship I am God, king, and all the saints combined and if you pray to anyone to keep you safe, you pray to me.

Wh-what do you think you are doing?" "I am getting some sleep, Governess. And so help me, if you keep me from it, your lovely backside will be a latticework of switch marks." Summer held her breath as Wade yawned, shifted, and settled into a more comfortable position. Surely he was not thinking she would remain with him like this for the rest of the night! "Captain Wade, I must insist--!" "Blood

I am placing Mistress Chandler in your care. Lose her or take your eyes off her for one second and I'll peel the skin off your arse with my teeth.

The practice of assuming authority figures know best what one needs, for example, is a mark of someone whose self-esteem is vulnerable.

Many people in fact have very negative associations with needs. They associate needs with being needy, dependant, selfish, and again I think that comes from our history of educating people to fit well into domination structures so that they are obedient and submissive to authority.

The language of wrongness, should, and have to is perfectly suited for this purpose: the more people are trained to think in terms of moralistic judgments that imply wrongness and badness, the more they are being trained to look outside themselves—to outside authorities—for the definition of what constitutes right, wrong, good, and bad. When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.

it establishes the speaker as someone who sits in judgment.

The most dangerous of all behaviors may consist of doing things "because we're supposed to.

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.

Hell, we got too much dignity in government now, what we need is some meanness.

A lowly clerk expressing an opinion doesn't get people's notice at a company. But when the CEO expresses that opinion, everyone jumps to attention. The higher up you go, the more your suggestions become orders.

Every decision in the world is made by the person who has the power to make the decision. Make peace with that.