Quotes About Authority

The hand that signed the paper felled a city;Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;These five kings did a king to death.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name.

You get your face dirty, I'll kill you,' Patricia said absentmindedly.

Mr Abrahams was a preparatory schoolmaster of the old-fashioned sort. He cared neither for work nor games, but fed his boys well and saw that they did not misbehave. The rest he left to the parents, and did not speculate how much the parents were leaving to him. Amid mutual compliments the boys passed out into a public school, healthy but backward, to receive upon undefended flesh the first blows of the world.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

There is a crisis in American leadership in the middle of the twentieth century that is partly due, I think, to the declining authority of an establishment which is now based on an increasingly castelike White-Anglo Saxon-Protestant (WASP) upper class.

A politician is an arse upon which everybody has sat except a man

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Great empires require great gods and great religions.

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

That's the thing," said Gat. "Everyone's always asking Harris about everything. Why should a grown woman have to ask her father to approve her wedding?

but she's got power—because she's got money.

It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.

palace with massive pillars and many courtyards, and his word was law. All the people of Egypt had to toil for him if he so decreed. And sometimes he did.

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

The only relationship which Cecil conceived was feudal: that of protector and protected.... He daren't let a woman decide. He's the type who's kept Europe back for a thousand years. Every moment of his life he's forming you, telling you what's charming or amusing or ladylike, telling you what a man thinks womanly; and you, you all all women, listen to his voice instead of to your own.

O colégio interno de] Sunnington foi a etapa seguinte na carreia de Maurice. (...) Tendo sido maltratado enquanto caloiro, maltratava outros que parecessem infelizes ou fracos, não porque fosse cruel, mas porque era o que se devia fazer. ------------------- p. 22, MAURICE, E.M.FORSTER

Come this way immediately," commanded Cecil, who always felt that he must lead women, though he know not whither, and protect them, though he knew not against what.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

Come this way immediately," commanded Cecil, who always felt that he must lead women, though knew not whither, and protect them, though he knew not against what.

There's no corporal punishment here, or any other form of punishment for that matter, and the children are encouraged to speak up for themselves. Unfortunately, they're not always particularly choosey about the things they say, and it can be rather alarming and embarrassing.

or she may have acted from pure caprice, for Joanna was ever as much woman as queen.