Quotes About Authority

En la familia De la Garza se podían perdonar algunas cosas, pero nunca la desobediencia ni el cuestionamiento de las actitudes de los padres.

M.J. looked at her. What's the difference between God and a federal judge? I don't know. God doesn't think he's a federal judge. Tara smiled, for what seemed like the first time in days.

Then Father said: "If the teacher has to thrash you again, Royal, I'll give you a thrashing you'll remember.

And I want you to know, Max said kindly to him, I don't hold you in any way responsible. Lysander frowned. For what? For sending me an assistant who wanted to take over New York with the help of a virgin-raping,mundane-eating demon. Lysander stiffened. I am not 'in any way responsible' for that! You did authorize the assignment, I reminded him. Well, I— I— Lysander cleared his throat. The decision was made at headquarters. All I did was sign the standard paperwork.

Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.

Why is everything always my decision? I asked. Because you will not tolerate anything else. Oh, I remembered now. Great, I whispered. - Anita to Jean-Claude

What did they think I was going to do, steal a body? If I wanted to, I could empty the damn place and get every corpse to play follow the leader. Perhaps that was why I needed watching. Perhaps. --Anita Blake

I try to be a good cop. I try to be a good little soldier and follow orders up to a point. But in the end I'm not really a cop, or a soldier. I am a legally sanctioned murderer. I am the Executioner.

When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.

I am the Executioner. Murder someone in my town, and I'm the one that you get to see. Once.

Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

I don't have a master. I'm not sure if I have an equal.

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

He thought I was a cop and deliberately didn't call me officer or detective. I let it go. If I really had a professional title I'd have demanded it, but getting into an argument because he wouldn't call me detective when I wasn't one seemed counterproductive.

Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.

Let's pretend it is a threat, because you need to understand that the other officers aren't keeping me safe from you; they're keeping you safe from me.

I will not be something you fuck and cuddle. I will be queen or I will be nothing to you.

Powerful and paranoid—it was a recipe for royalty.

It was basically a legal version of the sheriff standing out in front of the saloon in the Old West and saying, 'Let's form a posse and go get these guys.

me. "I don't know you," Edward said. "I came in just after you left," Simon said. "Simon?" Edward made the name a question, and the big man seemed to understand what was being asked. "As in whatever the fuck Simon says, you damn well better do." How colorful, I thought, but didn't say out loud.

An absolute monarch who believes in free will, isn't that against the rules? Onilwyn asked. No, I said, my face buried against Adair's skin, it's not. Not against my rules. My voice was beginning to drag with that edge of sleep. I think I will like your rules, Onilwyn said and his voice, too, was growing heavy. The rules, yes, Rhys said, but the housework is a bitch.

He gets power from his line, his master," I said, "it isn't always about personal power." "Truth and Wicked have no masters, do you?" The