Quotes About Authority

He was always testing you. He was always testing his power.

I think teenagers at any time are testing to see how far they can go and where authority comes in.

He who says organization, says oligarchy

One who is indispensable has in his power all the lords and masters of the earth.

Who says organisation, says oligarchy.

the crisis that came upon the English colonies in the American Revolution was constitutional. It raised the question of how men should be governed, or as the Americans came to say, whether they as free men could govern themselves.

the extent of Parliament's authority to legislate for the colonies had not been closely examined by anyone. When it was, it became a center of controversy. The common presumption in England, wholly unexamined, was that all was clear in the colonial relation. The colonies were colonies, after all, and as such they were "dependencies," plants set out by superiors, the "children" of the "mother country," and "our subjects.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

If I see you walking around with bits of dead cow on your feet again, I'll shoot your bloody toes off.

million dollars (3.5 million yuan). Authorities in the United

You will be tomorrow morning when I get my hands on you,' Large snapped. 'Minus ten house points for Hufflepuff. Over and out.

Falco wasn't your personal property. That old fart's taken more bribes than he's had hot dinners.

Is it true you're James Adams?' a puffed-out little grey shirt holding a tennis racket asked. 'The guy who started the food fight and had sex in the campus fountain?

hoax played by a drunken officer.

I swear, the only thing worse than an angry woman, is an angry woman who's got a big stick to whack you with.

And what would you do, ... if you could rule the world for a day? I suppose I would have no choice but to abolish reality.

Knowledge may be power, but the reverse is not necessarily true.

What gives the new despotism its peculiar effectiveness is indeed its liaison with humanitarianism, but beyond this fact its capacity for entering into the smallest details of human life.

un Estado mínimo, limitado a las estrechas funciones de protección contra la violencia, el robo y el fraude, de cumplimiento de contratos, etcétera, se justifica; que cualquier Estado más extenso violaría el derecho de las personas de no ser obligadas a hacer ciertas cosas y, por tanto, no se justifica; que el Estado mínimo es inspirador, asi como correcto.

Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people who constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?)

Some young Germans and Italians of otherwise modest attainments found satisfaction in pushing other people around. 95 Fascism was more fully than any other political movement a declaration of youthful rebellion, though it was far more than that.

Duplication of traditional power centers by parallel party organizations was a principal reason for the already noted "shapelessness" and the chaotic lines of authority that characterized fascist rule and set it apart from military dictatorship or authoritarian rule.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

The Ape of Thoth was a popular pub. A music pub. All kinds of bands had played there. Some had become quite famous since. The Who once played there, and Manfred Mann. Of course that is going back a bit. The Lost T-Shirts of Atlantis never played there, nor did Sonic Energy Authority, or The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, but you can't have everything.