Quotes About Authority

The man corrected him. Honor, he said firmly. I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

The guardians with their stern faces had no creative power. But they had strength and cunning, and they had found a way to steal and harness other people's powers for their own needs. They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be.

I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

Definitely not safe," Jonas said with certainty. "What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? "Or what if," he went on, almost laughing at the absurdity, "they chose their own jobs?" "Frightening, isn't it?" The Giver said. Jonas

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

We're required to learn to swim but we're not allowed in the river," she found herself telling him.

Honor," he said firmly. "I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

Needless to say, he will be released, the voice had said

Honor,' he said firmly. 'I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that that is not the same as power.

That he had this power frightened him.

ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO FEMALES UNDER NINE THAT HAIR RIBBONS ARE TO BE NEATLY TIED AT ALL TIMES. He turned toward Lily and noticed to his satisfaction that her ribbons were, as usual, undone and dangling.

I will take care of that, sir. I will take care of that, sir, Jonas mimicked in a cruel, sarcastic voice. I will do whatever you like, sir. I will kill people, sir. Old people? Small new born people? I'd be happy to kill them, sir. Thank you for your instructions, sir. How may I help y- He couldn't seem to stop.

We did it, he muttered to Ekaterin, now perching on the chair arm. Why didn't anybody stop us? Why aren't there more regulations about this sort of thing? What fool in their right mind would put me in charge of a baby? Two babies?

Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat.

A Caligula, or a Yuri Vorbarra, can rule a long time, while the best men hesitate to do what is necessary to stop him, and the worst ones take advantage.

Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.

At some stage of development an officer had to stop following orders and start generating them.

inside every senior tech officer was a junior tech officer who'd been on a short leash for a long time.

Well, he's his god's problem now. Don't promote your troubles beyond your rank." "That is actually theologically sound advice.

There will be a ten percent surcharge for resisting arrest

Don't promote your troubles beyond your rank.

But why, in God the Father's name, should they want to destroy Athos? Is Cetaganda—controlled by women or something?" A

She opened her mouth once to speak, closed it, then finally ripped out, "Why aren't you on your way home? I gave you an order, Lieutenant!" Stuben, anticipating a warmer reception, was momentarily nonplussed. "We took a vote," he said simply, as though it explained everything. Cordelia

Miles looked up at his father. "Did I do the right thing, sir? Last night?" "Yes," said the Count simply. "A right thing. Perhaps not the best of all possible right things. Three days from now you may think of a cleverer tactic, but you were the man on the ground at the time. I try not to second-guess my field commanders." Miles's heart rose in his aching chest for the first time since he'd left Kyril Island. He nodded, satisfied.