Quotes About Authority

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

The Wolves are a free people," said Father Wolf. "They take orders from the Head of the Pack, and not from any striped cattle-killer. The man's cub is ours—to kill if we choose.

These be the sort — she took a fine judicial tone, and stuffed her mouth with paan — These be the sort to oversee justice. They know the land and the customs of the land. The others, all new from Europe, suckled by white women and learning our tongues from books, are worse than the pestilence. They do harm to kings.

One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward

Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order—never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and the reasons for the request.

And there's never a law of God or man runs north of Fifty-three.

The Viceroy possessed no name – nothing but a string of counties and two-thirds of the alphabet after them.

Now you gird yourself and take yourself where you want to go … but one day another will gird you and take you where you do not want to go.

pointing to Father

Hojo-You sound exactly like bandits, bossing me around. Bandits- That's because we ARE bandits.

It's a landscape that controls you, sits you down and says, Shut up, pal, I'm in charge here.

You owed him absolute obedience because you were Japanese.

answer him. He and the sergeant went to the head

It's always precisely the sort of smug old wanker you would never ever want to end up like. We don't live the way you tell us to because we're afraid that if we do we'll grow up to be like you, and the thought of that is unbearable. It's alright for you because you'll be dead soon anyway, but we've still got another fifty or sixty years to live in this stinking country.

His Highness worked on the assumption that even the most loyal press should not be given in abundance, because that might create a habit of reading, and from there it is only a single step to the habit of thinking, and it is well known what inconveniences, vexations, troubles, and worries thinking causes.

These words were spoken by Him to whom, according to His own statement, is given all power in heaven and on earth. You who hear me must consider within yourselves whether you will bow before his authority or not, accept and believe the words or not. But if you do not wish to do so, then for heaven's sake do not go and accept the words because they are clever or profound or wonderfully beautiful, for that is a mockery of God.

To ask whether Christ is profound is blasphemy, and is an attempt (whether conscious or not) to destroy Him surreptitiously; for the question conceals a doubt concerning His authority, and this attempt to weigh Him up is impertinent in its directness, behaving as though He were being examined, instead of which it is to Him that all power is given in heaven and upon earth.

But now how can an Apostle prove that he has authority? If he could prove it physically , then he would not be an Apostle. He has no other proof than his own statement. That has to be so; for otherwise the believer's relationship to him would be direct instead of being paradoxical.

to him who has the ring, the spirit of the ring is obedient, whether he be Noureddin or Aladdin, and he who has the world's treasure, has it, however he got it.

For a Christianity preached by royal functionaries who are paid and made secure by the State and employ the police against other people, such a Christianity has the same relation to the Christianity of the New Testament as swimming with a cork float or with a bladder has to swimming, that is to say, it is play.

necessity had no respect for law. Even custom must bow to it at times.

In the nature of things a priesthood is always demoralizing.

Why didn't you say that's what you were planning in the first place?" Vaughn smiled. "Because, Doctor, when they make you a commander, they take the bone out of your head that makes you explain orders.

For all that Starfleet insisted on military protocol, their officers had a tiresome tendency to question everything.