Quotes About Authority

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

I told you the Bible was more to be depended on than newspapers!

It's very vain of you to say so then. You'd better let your teacher say it.

How strange, I remember thinking, how utterly strange were the ways of the Castilians—just by saying that something was so, they believed that it was. I know now that these conquerors, like many others before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.

the representative committee

The crimes the law can understand are not the worst crimes.

Governors and legislators wanted the hostiles held in check and the bandits hung, but they wanted it all to be done with the fewest possible men on the cheapest possible horses. It irritated Call and infuriated Augustus.

He had seen highly competent men stand as if paralyzed in a crisis, though once someone took command and told them what to do they might perform splendidly.

He was still the captain, but no one had seemed to notice that there was no troop and no war.

The State has a superfluity of testicles, Peersa said with no particular emphasis.

One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better

The hammer has fallen.

It does not disturb me to play a god, he said. It disturbs me to play a god badly.

Allen, it puzzles me that a man can shoot thirty-two full-grown men and women before the sheriff's men gun him down. You're more his time, maybe you can tell me. Why didn't someone just shoot the son of a bitch?

Kevin, yours won so many arguments that she was made a teacher

Admiral's compliments, and you're to come to his office right away, Midshipman Staley announced.

And they never promoted anybody who could do the math, because anyone who could do enough math to understand physical limits would be opposed to socialism in the first place.

Followed rules, not dreams. Never again. -Margaret Hellerstein

Your body will no longer belong to you, she read, voice quavering. Once you are a slave, it is the instrument of your master's pleasure to use as he...as he wishes! Aiden's

Your body will no longer belong to you, she read, voice quavering. Once you are a slave, it is the instrument of your master's pleasure to use as he...as he wishes!

Obeying the order you don't approve of is the only real proof of obedience. She taught me that.

parecía que la única virtud de Mamá Elena era la de encontrar defectos.

To the table or to bed, you must come when you are bid.

Mamá Elena opinaba que la palabra mamá sonaba despectiva, así que obligó a sus hijas desde niñas a utilizar la palabra «mami» cuando se dirigieran a ella.