Quotes About Authority

Thinking of the last few words in Hebrews 13:17 — that when our kids obey their leaders and submit to their authority, the end result will be to their advantage —Melanie couldn't help but marvel at the goodness of God.

Knives,' muttered Calder, 'and threats, and bribes, and war?' Bayaz' eyes shone with the lamplight. 'Yes?' 'What kind of a fucking wizard are you?' 'The kind you obey.

Power makes all things right. That is my first law, and my last. That is the only law that I acknowledge.

They've strengthened the walls since last year. I wouldn't fancy trying to storm the place." "Don't pretend you'd have the guts to storm the place" "I wouldn't fancy telling someone else to storm the place" "Don't pretend you'd have the guts to give the orders" "I wouldn't fancy watching you tell someone else to storm the place." "No.

The goal of government, you see," and the Arch Lector prodded at the air with his bony forefinger, "is to load the unhappiness onto those least able to make you suffer for it.

Very well, Practical Vitari, if you really can't resist me. You'll have to go on top, though, if you don't mind.

Government is tyranny. At its best it is dressed in pretty colours.

Any man can do what he likes. Right, Splitfoot?' 'Right, Chief.' 'Just as long as it's exactly what I fucking tell 'em to do.

There can be a greater power in words than in all the steel within the Circle of the World.

A man without discipline is no better than a dog. A soldier without discipline is no better than a corpse. Worse, in fact. A corpse is no threat to his comrades.

Why?' she hissed. Why indeed? 'I give you orders,' he barked, 'not fucking reasons!

In violent times folk like to kneel to violent men. In peaceful times they remember they're happier standing.

see the interview done by Valentine Daniel for Public Culture (24, no. 3 [Fall 2012]: 487–508).

concepts emerge as seductive and powerful agents. They invite appropriation, quick citation, promising the authority that such invested affiliations are imagined to offer. They also invite unremarked omissions when their capacities to subsume are strained, a setting aside of what seems uneasily, partially, or awkwardly to "fit" within the analytic repertoire of "cases" that confirm both disciplinary

concepts emerge as seductive and powerful agents. They invite appropriation, quick citation, promising the authority that such invested affiliations are imagined to offer. They also invite unremarked omissions when their capacities to subsume are strained, a setting aside of what seems uneasily, partially, or awkwardly to "fit" within the analytic repertoire of "cases" that confirm both disciplinary protocols and ready analytical frames.

the "imperial dispositions of disregard": that which makes it possible—sometimes effortlessly and sometimes with strenuous if unremarked labor—to look away.

It's because you know that more is possible that you'll always see the pointlessness in following a stupid rule or clocking in and out of a boring class. Most people can't see that distinction, so they just do as they're told. Of course, this makes them bored and irritated, but they think that's the human condition. You and I are lucky enough to see that it doesn't have to be that way.

class. Most people can't see that distinction, so they just do as they're told. Of course, this makes them bored and irritated, but they think that's the human condition. You and I are lucky enough to see that it doesn't have to be that way.

Arrest the meek! Reward the obnoxious!

The act of driving the car made him feel he was a powerful being who could conquer the world. Up over hills, fast down on the other side. It was like playing god and commanding everything within hearing to awaken and listen to him. The people sleeping in the white farmhouses were at the mercy of the sound of his engine roaring past in the night.

In The Woman Reader Kate Flint argues that "the study of reading...involves examining a fulcrum: the meeting-place of discourses of subjectivity and socialization." Reading has traditionally been "a prime tool in socialization" and is "centrally bound in with questions of authority".

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

In this country any kind of printing was forbidden unless authorised.

And just remember Comrades this one thing: the most important thing you have is power! Hang on to power at all costs! Without it, you are nothing!" He didn't mention the democracy demonstrations and the fact that the Soviets were backing away from us,' Herr Bohnsack says, 'but it was clear he must, at some level, have felt the end coming.