Quotes About Authority

The Queen is coming to reclaim her girls.

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.

The exultation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit.  A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

In Russia they put you in insane asylums if you disagree with the state: it's not so different here. Keep the natives quiet.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal.

I'm not a slave to a God that doesn't exist, and I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit.

He told me once that being blessed meant being bloodied, and that is true etymologically, in English - but not in Greek or Hebrew. So whatever understanding might be based on that derivation has no scriptural authority behind it. It was unlike him to strain interpretation that way. He did it in order to make an account of himself, I suppose, as most of us do.

Conscience can be slow to awake, even to abuses that are deeply contrary to declared values—for example, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And if conscience is at peace with such things, if it rationalizes and endorses them, does it still possess an authority that justifies its expression, since acceptance is as much an act of conscience as resistance

No, that's not possible, Michael said. Killed, yes; jail, no.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.

One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns ...

You let women dictate your actions and they are not competent in this world, though certainly they will be saints in heaven while we men burn in hell.

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

A man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous!

He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.

Don Corleone did this by putting a pistol to the forehead of the band leader and assuring him with the utmost seriousness that either his signature or his brains would rest on that document in exactly one minute. Les Halley signed.

For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone.

We are not responsible to the .90 calibers the pezzonovantis who take it upon themselves to decide what we shall do with out lives, who declare wars they wish us to fight in to protect what they own... And who are they then to meddle when we look after our own interests? Sonna cosa nostra...these are our own affairs. We will manage our world for ourselves because it is our world, cosa nostra

no longer fearing the cost. "For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone.

But della Rovere frowned and said, Heed my warning, Guido Feltra. He's full of the devil, this son of the church.

He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.

Macht ist nur die leere Erhöhung des eigenen Willens über den Willen anderer.