Quotes About Authority

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government do it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

You're my queen, and anyone who says different can fuck off.

As your girlfriend, you've just pissed me off. As your High Priestess, you've just insulted me. And as someone with a working brain, you've made me wonder if you've lost every bit of your sense. (Zoey Redbird)

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

The first duty of every soul is to find not its freedom but its Master.

My creation will be your destruction.

Os militares não dão cultura ao povo, porque se o povo tivesse cultura não os aceitaria.

La soberanía dimana inmediatamente del pueblo, el que sólo quiere depositarla en sus representantes […] que deben ser sujetos sabios y de probidad […]

Si en este país hay un sospechoso, es la policía. LUIS GONZÁLEZ DE ALBA

something about rules—you have to either follow them or break them with gusto.

Ask, in Aramaic, means a combination of "claim" (as in, that deed to the land is yours) and "demand." To ask for something in prayer is to simply lay hold of what's yours. You have the right, and even the responsibility to command your life.

Gabe leaned down, whispered in her ear. "The U.S. Marshal Service is at the top of the law-enforcement pecking order, outranking everyone, even the FBI. They have jurisdiction no matter where they are." Marc's gaze followed Zach. "I wish Darcangelo were here. He'd fucking hate this.

Annie is my wife, and she will remain wi' me as my wife, subject only to my rule. I will suffer no man to dishonor her or lay hand upon her so long as I live.

We outrank the Agency here in the homeland. If they want a dick fight, we'll give them one.

Chief Deputy US Marshal Zach McBride.

We outrank the Agency here in the homeland. If they want a dick fight, we'll give them one.

Give willingly, refuse unwillingly," he writes in Émile. "But let your refusal be irrevocable. Let no entreaties move you; let your 'no,' once uttered, be a wall of brass, against which the child may exhaust his strength some five or six times, but in the end he will try no more to overthrow it. Thus you will make him patient, equable, calm and resigned, even when he does not get all he wants.

the main point of parental authority is to authorize children to do things, not to block them.

Tell me your name," she murmured against his temple. "Master," he replied, his warm breath tickling her neck. She snorted. "No, it's not." He lifted his head , his eyes hot and amused. "It is to you.

Dudes!" one of the humans called. "Are you going to untie us, or what?" Wolfe growled, circling close to where the women stood. If he calls us 'dudes' one more time, I'm ripping his throat out.

Globalization – characterized by roving capital, accelerated communications and quick mobilization – has everywhere weakened older forms of authority, in Europe's social democracies as well as Arab despotisms, and thrown up an array of unpredictable new international actors, from English and Chinese nationalists, Somali pirates, human traffickers and anonymous cyber-hackers to Boko Haram.