Quotes About Authority

A starving man learns to respect the hand that feeds him, the one who cares for his most primal needs. So when I begin training a woman, my plan is intentional. I strip her of the most basic necessities. Food, clothing, shelter. Though her needs are contrived by me, the cumulative effects of my training will not be in vain.

Pakhan gives an order, we obey. He's our leader. The father of our group. A man who rules with an iron fist but pledges loyalty to the men beneath him. In turn, we swear our allegiance to him.

Brigadier. I'm the commander of our small army, the one who assigns jobs, oversees their completion, and pays tribute to our Pakhan.

In Tibet to kill one's teacher was seen as the worst crime one could commit.

Late one night, an account man was having sex with his secretary. He was fairly junior, so his inside office didn't have a door, and the big boss happened to be working late and caught them. The result: the account guy was promoted and got an office with a door; the secretary was fired.

Offer Acceptable Choices Having choices gives children a sense of power: they have the power to choose one possibility or another.

It is important to note that this does not mean allowing children to rule the home.

In the good old days few people questioned the idea that Dad's decisions were final. Because of the human rights movement, this is no longer true. Rudolf Dreikurs pointed out, "When Dad lost control of Mom, they both lost control of the children." All this means is that Mom quit giving the children a model of submissiveness.

will feel obliged to cruise up to the boundaries you've set and test them occasionally, just to make sure they're firmly in place.

wonder, "Would they rather have weak-willed children?"): children who won't obey, won't listen, or have temper tantrums. Some of this behavior is typical of a young child's development, as children explore and experiment to discover who they are and what they can do.

Stop staring and call your brother', Dane snaps over his shoulder as he heads toward the stairs.

I'd like to show you who's the boss, but I'm afraid it would only confirm that you are.

It's incredible how enormous actions can turn on the whim of a single man.

Even the famously unsporty Hitler liked to carry a riding whip in his hand.

I lived up to the wishes and expectations of people in authority, not because I was forced to, but because I wanted to. I didn't know anything else.

I can see that the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

If you let that tempestuous girl order you around or insult you again, I'll turn you over my knees and spank you. If she's going to treat my wife like that, then she'd best get the hell out of my home. The first time she ordered you out of your own kitchen, you should have flung a skillet at her, preferably a hot one." -Lynx

Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.

The voices began to take over the book and to speak to the reader over the biographer's head. They whispered, "Listen to me, not to her. I am authentic. I speak with authority. Go to the full texts of the journals, the letters home, and the rest. They will tell you what you want to know.

From the point of view of most of the Arabs, another foreign conqueror, heretic and Western, had come into their land, evicted their Muslim occupier and claimed the local people to have been liberated. Then, like all the others, it established itself as the ruling authority.

controlled the lives of two hundred

sometimes you have to be the grown-up of your life and tell your inner child, who is kicking and screaming, "Get your shoes on. This is not optional. We have a play date.

Flex organizations do more than enable their players to worm out of accountability through their might-be-state, might-be-private status; they supplant the state.