Quotes About Authority

She reeked of tenure

Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making.

You are the devil to talk to, Rachel, he said curtly. Will you shut up and listen?

I said school starts tomorrow. I didn't say I was going to be there.

Hey," the other said, coming to life. "You're supposed to be in jail." Al grinned at him, his white-gloved grip tightening on the wooden handle, which was intricately carved in the shape of a naked, writhing woman. Nice. "And your momma wanted you to have a brain," he said, yanking the door open and slamming it into the guy's face.

This is a witchocracy, not a democracy. Clear?

I'd say she's get us both fired, but the I.S. doesn't let anyone go. Alive.

My name is Bis," he said, "and I was kicked off the basilica because I was spitting on the people coming in. Suck-up little Glissando thinks she knows angel dust from dirt and tattled on me.

You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.

I thought this was the safest place to hammer out an agreement with Piscary," I said meekly. "My office?" he barked. "Well…" I hedged. "Maybe a conference room?

The former world leader snarled at me when he found his balance. My face went cold, and I wondered if I'd fare better in the circle with Al.

Power doesn't corrupt. Power brings what we are to the top, is all," I said, thinking of all the ugly I had fought against. "Be it good or bad.

But I've been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen." Pixy dust sifted over us, and my skin burned. "Don't piss me off." Behind

Grim-faced, Jenks shouted, "What are you waiting for, Ivy? God to say go?

Men," she said, rolling her eyes as she sat before her screen again. "Don't they realize that if we wanted to rule the world, we could?

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.

Sure, we could have big trucks too. We could have a monster truck pull right on the White House lawn." "Monster truck." Joe smiled at the phrase.

But it isn't working fast enough." He tried to compose himself. "If you took your job seriously, you'd be looking into how to make change happen faster. Some things might be against the law, but in that case the law is wrong. I think the principle was set at Nuremberg—you're wrong to obey orders that are wrong.

So we were shouted at, we were beat on. "What gives you the right to do this! Who do you think you are!" We replied to this in the thousand-voice chorus, at a volume of 115 decibels: "WE ARE THE RULE OF LAW.

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government