Quotes About Authority

Eliminate the thinkers and you control the population. That's the real reason no one knows how to read and why we live in chaos

Often imitated, the Speck press order survives today as the best way for a trial judge to manage a celebrated case.

How empire permeates!

A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

Power is the most sought-after, addictive, seductive, abused drug there is. Compared to power, crack is Fruitopia.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation.

Second, honoring parents is how nearly all of us come to recognize that there is a moral authority above us to whom we are morally accountable.

Ma définition d'un leader court et simple: Un leader connaît le chemin, va le chemin, et montre le chemin.

Power can change people, no matter how infinitesimally smallest dose of power it may be. It's a too common observation that people, after receiving power, often lose their feelings of empathy and respect, and start to distance themselves from their subordinates, not realizing that power is almost always transitory. In my view, the true color and character of a person are revealed only by the manner in which she/he handles power.

race, culture, and gender influence how people behave and communicate. The problem is not in the differences of how people communicate, but in the failed understanding of their meanings, and the detrimental actions taken by those in positions of authority who hold stereotypes.

If you can, trap me. I'll make a good patient because I was brought up in the environment of authority; it's going to be hard to pull me in though- I've been running all my life, playing truant. If you can capture me I'll buckle down. I'll loathe you in secret and put on a good face.

What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?

You be sure to throw the book at him, you hear me? I feel violated, Detective. Violated." "I'll throw this table at you if you don't give us the names we're looking for.

So what does that actually mean?' 'To be honest, Ghastly, I haven't a bull's notion.' 'Elder Bespoke should be addressed by his full title,' Tipstaff said. 'Of course,' Skulduggery said. 'To be honest, Your Highness, I haven't a bull's notion.

Drive over a few of the little brats. That'll scare them off." "I... I don't think I can do that, sir... I just don't think we're capable of going that fast, sir.

And I order people around really well. This morning, Tipstaff came over with a cup of tea and I told him no, I don't want tea I want coffee. That was great. I really asserted my authority." "Did he go and get you a coffee?" "No, he said he'd already made of a pot of tea so I took the tea because, you know, he'd already made it, but my authority was still firmly asserted.

What did I tell you about wandering off? Why don't you ever do anything I say? If I didn't know any better, I would swear that you feel a compulsion to disobey authoriy figures." "That can't be what it is," she said. "Well, that's what it seems like." "But I don't view you as an authority figure." "Oh, not this again.

You have no idea what it is you're saying at any given moment, do you? You think just as long as you're issuing orders, you're a leader.

That's the problem you face when you deal with Arbiters. We don't answer to anyone. We could arrest you, throw you in a cell, and you'd languish there until we remembered to ask you those questions we'd been meaning to.

We promised them power.

Are there children out there? Um, yes sir, they're all children. Run a few down. Sir? Drive over a few of the little brats. That'll scare 'em off.

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.