Quotes About Authority

Disciplinary actions can easily become excessive and oppressive if you set aside the tool of training and depend on discipline alone to do the training.

If parents carefully and consistently train up their children, their performance will be superior to that of a well-trained, seeing-eye dog.

One father proudly told of how he fearlessly overcame by promising the child ice cream if he would only wait until they left the store. Such compromises will only affirm the child in his commitment to terrorist tactics. You are not gaining control of the child; he is gaining control of you. All children are trained, some carelessly or negligently, and some with varied degrees of forethought. All parental responses are conditioning the child's behavior, and are therefore training.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

Finally, Sacred Tradition is also necessary because some truths of the faith are expressed in a completely definite form in Scripture, while others are not entirely clear and precise and therefore demand confirmation by the Sacred Apostolic Tradition.

Power wants us numbered and not named, carded and not just remembering our name, address, telephone number, purpose, social security number, PIN, and so forth. Power has good reasons. As long as we have papers, we cohere;

Hey, I don't make the rules, I just work here. You have a complaint, take it up with the Emperor.

Academic freedom: It's great, as long as you don't use it."

Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)

Second, and in the same breath, constitutions seek to discipline politics and to limit government power.

I remember having to do a monthly progress report when I worked under Andy. I used the word 'corroborate' and he sent me a note, saying there's no such word. 'You mean "collaborate," ' he wrote. I responded with my own note and told him, ' "Corroborate" is a legitimate word.' "He sent back one final note that said, ' "Bastard" is a legitimate word, too.

Girls are funny. If they fall for you, they do what they want—their mothers be damned.

There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.

Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world thinks and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting against the likes of you.

There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world thinks and acts.

There's nothing so much like a god on earth as a General on a battlefield.

When you have people making decisions they are essentially compelled to make," he said, "that's what I'm referring to as 'an unmanageable situation.

The Age of Reason, then, was the age when humanity was born again, not from original sin, but from original ignorance and dependence on authority and superstition. Never again should we allow ourselves to be the intellectual slaves of those who would bind our minds with the chains of dogma and authority. In its stead we use reason and science as the arbiters of truth and knowledge.

You know what they call a leader with no followers?" The others waited for him to answer his own question. "Just a guy out taking a walk.

Lies emerges when control is unreachable

Grammatical correctness, after all, has a powerful symbolic value: getting your language right implies that you can obey rules and respect authority.

The bureaucrat fell from the sky.

Oh, they're always saying that. But they are only the Masters of Outer Darkness," he corrected.