Quotes About Authority

He had a smart crew, and if he spoke too much, they'd shut up and listen to him instead of volunteering their own very useful opinions. 'Good leaders lead,' Pantillo had told Erik once. 'Great leaders listen.

Smack your child every day. If you don't know why — he does.

I'm not really like a cop at all. I haven't got any actual authority. If someone does show up to do anything bad, I am not allowed to touch them or interfere with them in anyway. I'm a scarecrow. I'm like one of those plastic owls that are supposed to scare away the pigeons, but that the pigeons shit all over.

You won't do this anymore because I'm telling you that you won't. You belong to someone now. Me. And I take care of you, even if your greatest danger comes from yourself.

I am a Mistress to others; you are the Master of me. Of my heart, mind and soul.

When he was with a woman, he saw to her welfare with the easy authority of a man who believed it was his responsibility to look after her.

By my hand only. By my cock and mouth only, unless I command otherwise.

Can I get back to fucking your brains out now?" Thomas grinned. "You forget how to be a Master? Why are you asking?

However cliché it sounds, my dear, you know and I know that a Master is cruel only in order to be kind. It's a very, very important rule

Most of the Masters at The Zone would have given both of their testicles for the right to top the Ice Queen.

Steven Pinker dristar sig till och med till att hävda att högre intelligens leder till mer klassiskt liberala attityder, som individualism och frihet framför tradition, auktoritet och kollektivism.

Nije li u me?uvremenu krš?anstvo što dalje to više gubilo tu osjetljivost za situaciju? Ono više ne najavljuje, ne naviješta, ono još samo ponavlja ono što jest pa ga onda iritira vlastita mjerodavnost koja nema nikakvih posljedica.

The aim of all government is to make all government superfluous.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

World history is the world's court.

The richest monarch in the Christian world;The sun in my own dominions never sets.

Whoever writes in a foreign language must like a lover accommodate his mode of thinking to it. -- Whoever writes in his native language has the authority of a husband in his own house, if he is in command of it.

Education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished.

Harry Anslinger is our own darkest impulses, given a government department and a license to kill.

The first tugs towards prohibition were about power, and purity of belief. If you are going to have one God and one Church, you need to stop experiences that make people feel that they can approach God on their own.

The world belongs to the strong," Harry believed. "It always has and it always will.

while Harry Anslinger claimed to be fighting the Mafia, he was in fact transferring a massive and highly profitable industry into their exclusive control.

White boasted. "Where else [but in the Bureau of Narcotics] could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage219

Harry couldn't control the flow of drugs, but he was discovering he could control the flow of ideas—and it was not only scientists Harry believed he had to silence.