Quotes About Authority

Powerful men needed their women to be unchallenging, the home should not be an arena for intellectual debate.

It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

There was something in her attitude, in her whole appearance when she leaned her head against the high-backed chair and spread her arms, which suggested the regal woman, the one who rules, who looks on, who stands alone.

As Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

There was something scary about watching adults sleep. It was as if no one at all were in charge of the world.

Never use anybody else's power, but always use yours.

Should you be driving? said the woman. I should be driving, I told her. I gave her a very-serious grown-up-to-grown-up sort of look. The situation is dire.

There will one day come a girl child who will unseat a king and bring about a great change.

Did I ask ye how old you were today? Get out of my face before I give ye a good clout to the ear.

Because we must act to make our fate come true, said the king.

He can put us in jail for trespassing. I don't care.

for whether she knows anything or not, she looks as if she did, and whether she's capable of filling an office or not, she looks as if she was.

You have too high an opinion of the high command

Their regime was thoroughly regimented. Those who rule with an iron grip and attention to detail know how to crush each least spark of rebellion

Was it not Democritus of your own country who said, 'Well-ordered behavior consists in obedience to the law, the ruler, and the woman wiser than oneself'? Although in the text I read the words were written as, 'the man wiser,' but I can only suppose the scribe wrote the word wrong or meant it to be 'Elder.

Yana," he said gravely, "you must learn the basic lesson that those who have power will use it, and those who don't must learn to control those who do. You

I was the oldest god, for one thing.

They can't push women all the way back, but they can use women's bodies to keep them under surveillance and control.

What the president never accepted, or even clearly understood – as most people don't understand – is the autonomy editors have, and must have, to produce a good newspaper. I used to describe it as liberty, not license.

Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. You've seen it a thousand times. We create a leader by locating one in the crowd who is standing up. This may well be because there are no chairs or because his knees are fused by arthritis. It doesn't matter. We designate this victim as a 'stand-up guy' by the simple expedient of sitting down around him." ARTURISM:

I don't mind being lord of all I survey but I don't want to have to work at it. It just wouldn't be practical.

the top head would have controlled everything and made his poor little butt-brother miserable.

lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over.