Quotes About Authority

We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him the lecture, including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the Alpha, which was only slightly more complicated than an audience with the queen. Don't sit until you're invited to. Don't talk unless he asks you a question. Don't eat before he does. Don't make direct eye contact. Jeremy demanded none of this, but that wasn't the point.

In Cainsville, town elders still hold power. They'll protect you.

Uh-uh Clay drawled above me, Elena's played with you long enough, Its my turn

That's the problem dealing with nonwerewolves, I said. They lack that critical 'you are Alpha, you are right' gene.

Blast him, Ronan hissed as they surveyed the empty space behind the roadside shop. He may tell us not to treat him as a prince, but he cannot stop acting like one. He does as he pleases. Only when it's in my best interests, Tyrus said as he rounded the shop. Ronan glowered. Which is anytime you don't like what you're told to do. Tyrus grinned. True.

He called after me, "How old am I, Maya?" I turned. "How the hell should I know? Whatever you've told the school, I'm sure it's a lie anyway.

Mr. Tillson?" I said, shaking him harder. Daniel undid his belt. Sam did, too, getting up and walking forward, hunched, as she stepped over Rafe. "Okay, that's enough!" the pilot barked. "In your seats, belts on. Everyone!" "Or what?" Sam said. "You'll pull over and make us walk the rest of the way?

Seems that control-over-animals thing doesn't work so well with the animals we really need control over." "No kidding, huh?" I said.

Barnes in there?" he asked, meaning the principal. I shook my head. "Haven't seen him. Ms. Morales was around, though." "Yeah, I talked to her. She says I need to talk to Barnes. Late once too often this week." That grin sparked again, like being late for school earned him a place in the bad boy hall of fame.

I was the authority on me.

The town council met at the school. That meant we knew exactly how to sneak in.

The Wizard of Oz was a humbug. He's not great and powerful. He just pretends to be great and powerful. The Wicked Witch of the West is greater and powerfuller. She's got flying monkeys. She's like a mad scientist. She even has a secret weakness. Water is like Kryptonite to her.

Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.

Erik was one of those inadequate people who were so scared by life that they preferred to live under harsh authority, to be told what to do and what to think by a government that allowed no dissent. They were foolish and dangerous, but there were an awful lot of them.

The power of a king was not absolute, after all: it could be restrained by the will of the people.

Protestors can have a big impact, but in the end it's governments that reshape the world.

When you were trying to enforce law and order, it was difficult to explain that the rules did not actually apply to you personally.

This was not a political party. It was an army. The purpose of the display, Lloyd figured, was to give them false authority. They wanted to look as if they had the right to close meetings and empty buildings, to burst into homes and offices and arrest people, to drag them to jails and camps and beat them up, interrogate and torture them, as the Brownshirts did in Germany under the Nazi regime so admired by Mosley and the Daily Mail's proprietor

Carla had never before realized how much she had been protected by politicians, newspapermen, and lawyers. Without them, she saw now, the government could do anything it liked, even kill people.

Everything is ultimately the Prime Minister's fault', said Lloyd. 'That's what it means to be the leader

Los manifestantes pueden causar un gran impacto, pero al final son los gobiernos los que remodelan el mundo.

La clase trabajadora es más numerosa que la dirigente, y más fuerte. Dependen de nosotros para todo. Les proporcionamos la comida, construimos sus casas, les hacemos la ropa, y sin nosotros se mueren. No pueden hacer nada a menos que se lo permitamos. Nunca lo olvides.

Fitz did not censor her mail but, as the head of the family, he had the right to read any letter addressed to a female relative living in his house. No respectable woman would object.

If earls' daughters were allowed to marry whom they please, we'd all be ruled by strolling minstrels and dark-eyed outlaws.