Quotes About Authority

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

Well your full of cow pies up to your ears! I don't give way on the orders of rabble, or bow to Devall's uppity marshal. He can stuff his gold braid! Yes, up his tight arse where it will hurt the most, for all that I care for his posturing! These wagons will pass. Afterwards, you can shoot all the crossbolts you like, and ram yourselves straight to oblivion!

A?ADAR, TREBUIE S?-I PERMITEM TOTUL? În nici un caz: am transforma un sclav care se plictise?te într-un tiran plictisit. Interzicând, oricum c?lim voin?a m?car în direc?ia autocontrolului ?i renun??rii, îi dezvolt?m creativitatea în activit??i pe un teren îngust, îndemânarea de a se sustrage controlului , îi construim sim?ul critic.

Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them.

We are not like you. We do not glory in having power over our own kind." Haghuf turned to walk away. Then as an afterthought added over his shoulder, "Or imagining that we do.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that's just what I'll do. It's this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I'd be a good politician.

I'm on a government watch list. But I'm not interested, because government watches only work twenty minutes out of every hour.

the way to subvert the dominant paradigm is to have more fun than they do and make sure they know it.

doubted that men would give up their power without a vicious fight.

It might seem perverse, but the CEO is usually the last to know. With great power comes great ignorance.

Questions bring options, decrees burn them.

The fact is that the higher you go in an organization, the less you'll know what it's really like. It might seem perverse, but the CEO is usually the last to know. With great power comes great ignorance.

With great power comes great ignorance.

When you treat people like children, you get children's work. Yet that's exactly how a lot of companies and managers treat their employees. Employees need to ask permission before they can do anything. They need to get approval for every tiny expenditure.

We haven't done anything," Luke agreed, though he knew that was no guarantee of safety. Plenty of things happened to people who hadn't done anything—things that were never discussed again, or at least not by anyone with any sense.

They'll have the high ground

Nismo nemo?ni jer nam govore što da radimo i jer to ?inimo. Bespomo?ni smo jer volimo sigurnost ropstva.

The ability of an organization to embrace radical change and reinvention is determined by the ego of the person in charge; substantive change is never initiated from the mid level or bottom ranks of an organization.

We have a history of wanting our leaders to be taller than average. That's probably because in ancient times everyone thought that tall leaders could see farther.

I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand?

Never in his unlimited lifespan had he ever allowed anyone to call him anything but President Gorlax. Even when he was a fledgling, and not even a president. The other kids hated him for it. He had them killed.

Estás de broma o qué? —pregunta a su vez, mirando a Melchor con su cara inconfundible de pedrada—. Pero ¿cómo quieres que crea en un sistema político que le da el derecho de voto a un individuo como yo?

Ha nem bírjuk levenni a szemünket valamirÅ'l, az olyan érzés, mintha irányítanának, nekünk pedig engedelmeskednünk kellene; már-már megalázó.