Quotes About Authority

By this time the whole School was thoroughly out of hand. Mrs. Morland was having a good cry, as were several ex-parents. An ex-Solicitor-General, an Air Vice-Marshal, two Earls, an Admiral of the Fleet, and an old boy who had been in prison for fraud on an unprecedented scale, were blowing their noses and glaring defiantly at anyone who didn't think they had a cold, and Mr. Birkett felt more than ever Lawk-a-mercy on me, This is none of I.

What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie. 'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes. 'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians off the face of the world with this withering remark.

The doctrine of blind obedience and unqualified submission to any human power, whether civil or ecclesiastical, is the doctrine of despotism, and ought to have no place among Republicans and Christians.

The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people with objective reference to the law of God.

Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen.

Come on, hurry up," Marcia snapped impatiently at the spiral stairs. Taking her at her word, the stairs sped up to double daytime speed,

As ExtraOrdinary Wizard I am supposed to be mean," Septimus replied with a smile. "It's part of the job description.

Marcia,' zei hij heel ernstig. 'Er is iets wat je goed moet begrijpen. Níémand is bij machte een Leerling terug te halen van de Queeste.' 'Kletskoek', zei Marcia.

who was curled into a tight ball. And then past his master, Silas. Maxie felt uncomfortable going past Silas, because Silas was Top Dog and Maxie was Not Allowed in Front.

Oi!" came a yell from a steward. "Getoffthecourse!" On race day, respect for the Queen came second to the sanctity of the track.

There's no way the new chimney will fall down, Lu. Not with you in charge. It wouldn't dare.

Anxious to oblige the frightening new Steward and his sidekicks, many people gave them completely fictitious directions, and the search party was sent on a wild goose chase.

Marcia listened to the comments and wondered why people thought that wearing ExtraOrdinary Wizard robes made her deaf.

Those who sit furthest from the center of power, see it the clearest.

If, as we have it on the highest authority, there is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, why not sin, provisionally? Why not break the rules, like that Prodigal Son (so much more amusing than his tedious brother) who must have attended so many parties like this evening's, and who still came home to enjoy the fatted calf? Because they had felt so dull without him. So extremely bored with only the spectacle of virtue and hard work to beguile them.

But books, she had found, were too powerful, and invariably misleading.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

Whenever Papa said, 'Jump,' I was always the first one in the air.

She'd managed photographers who could make grown men cry, but Mrs Henry made her feel like a nervy six-year-old.

As the leader of twelve apostles, even Jesus had more executive experience than Obama.

As the saying goes: God made man and woman; Colonel Colt made them equal.

There are three main controllers of power here in Britain: the political establishment in Westminster, the BBC (MSM), and the Bank Of England.

Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.