Quotes About Authority

But now I feel rather like Br'er Rabbit being thrown into the briar patch, because I have found you here, in charge. Just like when we first met, back at the Natural History Museum.

Mrs. Trask turned to him. "When Mr. Pendergast asks for something, we do not say no.

The purpose of interrogating at night has more to do with torture than law enforcement.

we've come to understand sin as a kind of moral failing, but that interpretation actually comes from the power structures of the church and religious authorities. If you can convince somebody that they are inherently impure and that there is a mistake at the center of their being, then sin becomes a wrongdoing that deserves blame.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Obedience is the mother of success, and the wife of security.

Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

Zeus, first cause, prime mover; for what thing without Zeus is done among mortals?

In a change of government, the poor change nothing but the name of their master.

Might makes right.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control your mind and your mouth

There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth.

Where water is boss, the land must obey

You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you.

The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.

In an Empire where rats ruled, he was the king of the rats.

Katherine Grey was born with the power of managing old ladies, dogs, and small boys, and she did it without any apparent sense of strain.

Well, people are like that too. They create a false door - to deceive. If they are conscious of weakness, of inefficiency, they make an imposing door of self-assertion, of bluster, of overwhelming authority - and, after a time, they get to believe in it themselves. They think, and everybody thinks, that they are like that. But behind that door, Renisenb, is bare rock... And so when reality comes and touches them with the feather of truth - their true self reasserts itself.

In my opinion, the state of mind of a community is always directly due to the influence of the man at the top.

The police, as servants of law, must be of a high order of integrity. For their word is perforce believed by the virtue of their profession.

All this red tape and form-filling. That's what comes of a bureaucratic state. Can't go where you like and do as you please anymore! Somebody's always asking questions.

Nowadays young people seem to think they can just go about doing anything they choose.