Quotes About Authority

I'm not in power, but my ideas are in power. And my ideas will prevail.

If you're going to do something, do it with a Don!' - Tom

Should misfortune visit the Court, that can only be the result of its continued abuses. If the palace is attacked, that can only be the result of misgovernment. I can hardly be held responsible for the outcome.

Who among all the provincial lords—besides Lord Asakura—is a man upon whom we could rely? Who is the most reliable military leader in the country today? Does such a man exist?" "He

The authorities make them hate him. Otsu, these people are simple. They're afraid of the government, so afraid that if it so decrees, they'll drive away their fellow villagers, even their own kin.

In that little pocket-size world of his, he was the absolute master.

The State tells the epic of people's lives, putting people on the scale, weighing all the wrong things, then acting ponderous about the misinformation.

It's not a great idea to have the lead on an investigation under the control of a crazy spook. She's armed, for Christ's sake. I'd appreciate a little warning.

Sybilla poked her head inside. "We should go down to the hall now or risk Alysandir's displeasure.

anthropologists speak of ritual leadership and ritual space.

He expressed himself clearly, in complete sentences, no "uhs," "ums," "y'knows," "likes," or the dreaded "Know what I'm sayin'?" His supremely confident attitude was overpowering. He clearly knew what he wanted and where he was going to get it. When Jack was in LeRoux's presence, it didn't occur to him not to obey.

Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Revolutionary power grows out of the lips of a pussy

Over time, these writings of the early church fathers and the decrees of popes and church councils became accepted truth in the same way the Bible was.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

If you want a world ruled by law and not by force you must build up, from the very grassroots, a respect for law.

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

the laws work for those who fear them, not for those who violate them.