Quotes About Authority

Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them, Ivan," she says. "Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.

That's because the desire of most folks is to be told what to do." He looks back across the square, covered in tents and soldiers and townsfolk all huddled together. "People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

But I will say also on yer first day that the attractiveness of power is something you should learn about before you get too much older, it's the thing that separates men from boys, tho not in the way most men think.

Miss Kwan said, putting her voice into its "kindly" mode, which was only slightly less scary than full-on shouting.

Hmm," Mistress Coyle hmms.

That's a load of crap!" Conor shouted. "He didn't need to kill her. The people were behind him. They would have followed him anyway." The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster. And so the injustice that I saw, the reason that I came walking, was for the queen, not the prince.

Bitches,' Mr. Hammar says from atop his horse. 'Your analysis' was not asked for, Seargeant,' says the Mayor.

People say they want freedom, but what they really want is freedom from worry. If I take care of their problems, they don't mind being told what to do.

Sometimes the people don't know what's best for them... Sometimes the people have to be convinced of things that are necessary. That's what leadership is. Not shouting your head off in support of their every whim.

Except cleaner. And bossier.

We'd all met in the office and told the vice principal—who, like all vice principals, is genetically Nazi—what we'd seen. He

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

Inside Purdue Frederick, power was determined entirely by one's relationship to the family.

Conventional wisdom had it that every handler wants a highly placed source.

a posture of heavy-lies-the-crown fatigue.

And heroin was a street drug, sold out of the back of a car by anonymous young Mexicans of uncertain immigration status, whereas OxyContin had been approved by no less an authority than the Food and Drug Administration. The Sacklers were legitimate businesspeople, pillars of American society. Even after the felony conviction for Purdue, as controversy continued to swirl around OxyContin, Richard Sackler served on the advisory board of the Yale Cancer Center.

But, occasionally, Arthur would embarrass his brothers, intervening in the ad campaigns at McAdams and condescending to Raymond in front of junior staff.

If you are going to impose your will on the world, you must have control over what you believe.

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared.

Auri stood, and in the circle of her golden hair she grinned and brought the weight of her desire down full upon the world. And all things shook. And all things knew her will. And all things bent to please her.

Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.

Vashet shook a finger and cuffed the young girl on the side of her head. It was the same scolding any child receives. Stay out of the neighbor's garden. Don't tease the Bentons' sheep. Don't play tag among the thousand spinning knives of your people's sacred tree.

If we don't have impressive-sounding names for things, no one will take us seriously.