Quotes About Authority

But a leader is not a muscle. A leader is a mind.

Chronicler froze. 'So you're saying I work for you?' 'I'm saying you belong to me.' Bast's face was deadly serious. 'Down to the marrow of your bones.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

No, she won't," Bast said smugly. "Because I'm all grown, and I can do whatever I want with my pants. I could light them on fire and I wouldn't get in any trouble at all.

Appearance is a type of power.

We can't do anything but snap at each other," I said. "The masters made sure of that. Anything too extreme would get us expelled for Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum. Why do you think I haven't made his life a hell?" "You're lazy?" Wil suggested.

Names are the shape of the world, and a man who can speak them is on the road to power

Los nombres dan forma al mundo, y un hombre que puede pronunciarlos va camino del poder.

Felurian had a way of making requests that took some getting used to. I'd discovered that unless I was steeling myself to resist, I'd find myself automatically doing whatever it was she asked of me. It wasn't that she spoke with authority. Her voice was too soft and edgeless to carry the weight of command. She did not demand or cajole. When she spoke, it was matter-of-fact. As if she couldn't imagine a world in which you

You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.

I'd like respect, but failing that, a little healthy fear can go a long way to making things run smoothly.

Names reflect true understanding of a thing, and when you truly understand a thing you have power over it.

Wow," Elodin said after a long pause. He leveled a serious finger at the Lenatti man. "Uresh. Your next assignment is to have sex. If you do not know how to do this, see me after class.

I nodded to her. "I bow to your wisdom, Vashet." "You bow to the fact that I am unarguably correct.

Reputation is like a sort of armor, or a weapon you can brandish, if need be".

There are few things as nauseating as pure obedience,

Los nombres reflejan la verdadera comprensión de una cosa, y cuando comprendes de verdad una cosa, tienes poder sobre ella.

The point of all of this is control. First you must have control of yourself. Then you can gain control of your surroundings. Then you gain control of whoever stands against you.

O poder é bom e a estupidez é inofensiva, em geral. Mas o poder e a estupidez juntos são um perigo.

For he knew the name of the wind, and so the wind obeyed him. He spoke to the wind and it cradled and caressed him.

El poder está bien, y la estupidez es, por lo general inofensiva. Pero el poder y la estupidez juntos son peligrosos.

He did not despair. For he knew the name of the wind, and so the wind obeyed him.

Damn little gadflies think they can buy the sun out the sky, don't they?" "This particular one could probably afford it," I said grimly. "And the moon too, if he wanted the matched set to use as bookends.

Il y a peu de choses aussi répugnantes qu'une obéissance aveugle.