Quotes About Authority

Até saíra num jornal da capital que aquilo era abuso do poder. Jonas ria-se: ele não abusava; os outros é que não detinham poderes nenhuns. E repetia o ditado: cabrito come onde está amarrado.

Por primera vez, Dios tuvo miedo de que la creación desafiase al Creador.

The rules were explicit: No employee, from the chief executive down to the lowliest mailroom clerk, could talk to the press without a PR minder in tow. The communications department ruthlessly monitored all press coverage, issuing stern correctives to newspapers or magazines that erred on so much as an executive title.

Taking control of a ship operated by those bumpy-headed savages

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Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

A divine falsehood is more powerful than any human truth.

Africans in the Diaspora are parodying Western notions of gender relations that are based on the racist and sexist myth of man as the breadwinner (a central tenet of capitalism) and, by extension, head of the household. When this presumption fails to materialize, the authority that that positionality should have provided the man is contrived by assuming psychological and emotional control, which may result in abuse and its discontents.

to `educate' us, to keep us mentally enslaved.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.

Shame...is a first rate form of social control. Shame is what keeps us in line, what prevents us from discovering not so much who we are, but what we might become.

The world is always ruled by a maniac. - Baba Yaga

I'm soooooo telling." Puck stood behind her. "You two disobeyed your parents! I'm both shocked and really impressed.

How did you know that we could get him to do whatever we want if we pretend he's in charge?" Sabrina asked Daphne. "It's what I do with you" the little girl replied. "You two are exactly the same

Even the simplest of God's animals argue and fret over position and authority… asserting, sometimes with force, just who deserves what. The difference is, of course, that the wars of the chickens won't ever break the world.

Power is the ability to coerce others to do what they would not otherwise do.

Why do you think anyone would go to such lengths to prove that a direct command of God is no longer applicable, unless it is to gain some other benefit other than the acceptance and approbation of God?

The technology to control and destroy people always has in it the seeds of tyranny, and is forever subject to the lowest angels of human nature.

Inherent in the power to make men free by force is the power to enslave them again

No one wanted to get sent to Oklahoma, and that was exactly what would happen to you if you got out of line

Punishments included hanging by the thumbs, toes barely touching the ground; bucking and gagging, being trussed like a turkey with a bit cutting the mouth; spread-eagling on a spare wheel, mocking crucifixion; flogging; and branding.

you lose your temper in front of people you do not know, you lose their respect and it is almost impossible to win it back. You must keep control—if you cannot control yourself, then you have no chance of controlling others.

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top....