Quotes About Authority

He began dragging me again. "I'm seconds away from just tossing you over my shoulder," he warned.

Así es la política — dijo Adrian. — La gente con poder nunca juega bajo las mismas reglas

The greatest changes in history have come because people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

Mucha oración, mucho poder. Poca oración, poco poder. Falta de oración, falta de poder".

Obedience unlocks God's power.

We're no longer in the Animal Kingdom, we're in Maleficent's kingdom.

Take your preaching elsewhere , boy . (hardcover) p294

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

You ignorant little slug! the Trunchbull bellowed. You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!

Hooray! said the Chief of the Army. Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

Being very small and very young, the only power Matilda had over anyone in her family was brain-power.

All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvellously exaggerated stature.

I has told you five or six times,' he said, 'and the third will be the last.

I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won't listen to me; he won't learn.

screamed the Trunchbull and she marched off the platform followed closely by the cook.

My mother's chin was up and she was staring down at him along the full length of her nose. It was a fearsome thing, this frosty-nosed stare of my mother's. Most people go to pieces completely when she gives it to them. I once saw my own headmistress begin to stammer and simper like an idiot when my mother gave her a really foul frosty-noser. But the little man on the pavement with the umbrella over his head didn't bat an eyelid.

When she marched—Miss Trunchbull never walked, she always marched like a storm-trooper with long strides and arms aswinging—when she marched along a corridor you could actually hear her snorting as she went, and if a group of children happened to be in her path, she ploughed right on through them like a tank, with small people bouncing off her to left and right.

One could almost hear him saying, 'It's me! Here I come, the great man himself, the master of the house, the wage-earner, the one who makes it possible for the rest of you to live so well! Notice me and pay your respects!

So what was this place in which people were rewarded for working out the answer the teacher wanted them to give, rather than the right answer?

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

Nothing he has ever done has been tainted by legality [Robert Moses quoting an anecdote about himself].

IS WHERE POWER GOES": the most significant factor in any equation that adds up to political power, Lyndon Johnson had assured his allies, is the individual, not the office; for a man with a gift for acquiring power, whatever office he held would become powerful—because of what he would make out of it. Johnson