Quotes About Authority

You know the fact is that whenever there is a celebration for a person as great as Guru Nanakji, it is done by the government.

Guys need to know when to take charge.

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

We need a little more 'Hail to the Chief.'

I actually don't believe in big government, and half the time I'm never quite sure I believe in government, generally.

I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.

Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world.

But what is known is that California courts tend to do what they want.)

If you can't read a simple goddam sign and follow one simple goddam instruction then get your fat butt the hell out of here.

Whatever it tells me, whatever it says - it sounds like the word of God.

Ow do you knock out a Denizen? asked Suzy. I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works. It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered, quoth the raven.

The Clayr saw me, the Wallmaker made me, the King quenched me, the Abhorsen wields me so that no Dead shall walk in Life. For this is not their path.

Oh, fierce librarians, then? Tell you to shush and that sort of thing?

Sixth comes Saraneth, also known as the Binder. Saraneth speaks with the deep voice of power, shackling the Dead to the wielder's will.

What's wrong with this city! Like I said, no one's really in charge. Mayor and council are afraid to do anything in case the sorcerers don't like it. So they don't do anything. Someone should do something, Anya growled. She rowed on in silence for a while after that, thinking. It was easy to say someone should do something but rather more difficult to put it into practice.

How come it's all right for the bad guys to do whatever they want, and whenever I want to do something it's 'forget about it'? What's the good of being the Rightful Heir anyway? All I get is trouble!

I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed. - Mogget

How come it's all right for the bad guys to do whatever they want, and whenever I want to do something it's 'forget about it'?

Obey me!' bellowed the young woman.

Will Morven be a good queen? Um, said Anya, flustered. She's the oldest... Bert's eyes opened wider, questioningly. And that makes her fit to rule? Tell me, in your reading, do you study history?

If you have total government it makes little difference whether you call it Communism, Fascism, Socialism, Caesarism or Pharaohism. It's all pretty much the same from the standpoint of the people who must live and suffer under it.