Quotes About Authority

Help is the sunny side of control.

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must.

In biblical times, they used to stone a few thirteen-year-olds with some regularity, which helped keep the others quiet and at home. The mothers were usually in the first row of stone throwers, and had to be restrained.

Dread was my governess growing up.

Complacency and ignorance, Zebara suggested, pouring more brandy. A very good way to keep a large population so tractable the society lacks rebellion.

But Lord Raid and Lord Sifer had an unpleasant habit of reminding Benden Weyr riders of their loyalty at every opportunity. Gratitude is an ill-fitting tunic that can chafe and smell if worn too long. Lord

Without the discipline of work, they had invented the discipline of etiquette, and it had become just as ruthless a master.

Those who hold power have never in all history been inclined to relinquish it willingly. Usually it has been taken from them by force, or it has slipped from their hands because they were too weak or corrupt to retain it.

Claudia, you've been a very very naughty little girl.

being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority, no matter how often one might be tempted. To think that a personal God had made the world was to yield to a demonic and superstitious and destructive belief.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Those who desire power want to be immune to the power of others.

that one who commands must of necessity be wildly imperfect, boldly pragmatic, capable of compromises impossible for the truly wise and the truly good.

I knew I had been made to lead the party and that I was colder in temperament than the others, but I was not only deeply disturbed, I had lost respect for and trust in the Parents in some vital way. I did not entirely believe them when they said they would consider changing their plan. Their utter indifference to our personal fate was obvious. And not believing some of what they said, I came to question everything they said. I wanted really only one thing and that was to get away from them.

Five nights ago the Voice had said, "You of all understand me. You of all understand power, the desire for power, what is at the heart of the desire for power." "Which is what?" Rhosh had asked the Voice. "Simple," the Voice had replied. "Those who desire power want to be immune to the power of others.

Those who desire power want to

We seek power so as not to fall under anyone else's power

I am your queen," the woman answered.

You will obey the rules, won't you?" he asked suddenly. Mixture of menace and sarcasm. And maybe a little affection, too. "Of course!" Again I shrugged. "What are they, by the way? I've forgotten. Oh, we don't make any new vampires; we do not wander

weep when there are no more rules to break?" "Ah, but there are always rules to break.

In spite of Pops trying to restrain me I followed the sheriff all the way to his car, hammering on him about those two bodies: 'You've got to check and see who's missing! I'm telling you, I saw it. Two bodies, just dumped out there. You've got to search.

I felt a shudder. It is I who summoned you. Who spoke those words? Beware for you would be stolen from me now and I will not have it.

I want that boy, the one who won't do what you try to force him to do.

I knew that I could do anything I wanted with him. There was no force between Heaven and Hell that could stop me. And I did not need a Satan to tell me that I could bring him over to me and educate his within the Blood.