Quotes About Authority

Goes with the whole King of the Badasses. Kind of hard to lead an army of the damned if I'm the King of Nice -Stryker

Are they trained to treat everyone as a servant?' 'Probably. That doesn't make you into one

though we can educate the younger generation, we can even command them, we cannot control their lives, much as we think we'd do a better job of it.

Do you think he'll make a good king?" I asked. Again she seemed surprised. "Yes," she said. "But then I've known him all my life." As if that explains everything, I thought.

Adam put the paper down and said, I never like to see government spelt with a large G.

He was scrupulous about the use of his title because, his investigations being so utterly unscientific, he hoped to borrow an air of respectability, even scholarly authority, from his education.

Dr. John Montague was a doctor of philosophy; he had taken his degree in anthropology, feeling obscurely that in this field he might come closest to his true vocation, the analysis of supernatural manifestations. He was scrupulous about the use of his title because, his investigations being so utterly unscientific, he hoped to borrow an air of respectability, even scholarly authority, from his education.

She knew, of course, that he was delighting in exceeding his authority, as though once he moved to unlock the gate he would lose the little temporary superiority he thought he had

Mary Katherine must never be punished. Must never be sent to bed without her dinner. Mary Katherine will never allow herself to do anything inviting punishment.

If you are not ready in three minutes I will come in and drown you. I want my breakfast.

Jonas, I told him, you are not to listen any more to Cousin Charles, and Jonas regarded me in wide-eyed astonishment, that I should attempt to make decisions for him.

I believe we have neglected to see that terrorism is just a convenient excuse for those in power to gently instruct us to go quietly into that good night of being compliant and unrevolutionary citizens who willingly become subjugated to authority.

You're just a young doctor! Where do you come off having a waiting line? If you continue this way, you hear, you're going to have troubles, not a practice.

But what's the good of being boss if you don't trust your workers? You may think differently. But I'm not asking you.

A home's no good without a master and without a father.

To make a long story short, you know quite well that when a woman puts her foot down, she wins.

To be worshiped is not freedom.

The fact is, if his majesty had been a little boy, he would have been whipped and sent to bed for the sulks;

Like all boses—and on set, I'm the boss—I'm the boss only up to a point.

Power. If you had power, you had food. You had medicine. You had freedom. She saw those around her fall ill and die, and she equated power with life. One day, Kate thought, I'll have power. No one will be able to do this to me again.

Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea,they become powerless when they oppose it.

It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules of experience and with due regard to reality, that he should entrust precisely what affects him most nearly to the care of an authority which claims as its prerogative freedom from all the rules of rational thought.

en cuanto cierto número de seres vivos se reúne, trátese de un rebaño o de una multitud humana, los elementos individuales se colocan instintivamente bajo la autoridad de un jefe.

La multitud es un dócil rebaño incapaz de vivir sin amo.