Quotes About Authority

Get out of here, Antonia. Now." There was no real force behind the command, as if only a part of him meant it.

JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: What's your name, Bailiff?! BAILIFF: Julius of Outer Mongolia.

EL-FAYOUMY: May I approach you? JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: The bench, not me!

EL-FAYOUMY: Do not bait this great man, lady! He presided over the appeal of Attila the Hun when you were nothing more than a cheap shot of whiskey on your great-great-grandfather's first unpaid bar tab! JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Well said!

BAILIFF (cautiously): Sir, his name's El-Fayoumy. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: What? BAILIFF: You called him El-Fajita. JUDGE LITTLEFIELD: Just gimme my glasses! BAILIFF: You're wearing them, sir.

Look, whatever hayseed laws you pass in Who-Knows-What - Hell-Knows-Where. Don't amount to a hill of beans back here, as your type might say.

Rome strikes back!

King said, "Come. Sit. Have some more drinks. Colonel Kalinski, will you sort that out? You

It is important to say sir at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.

She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying Young Lady after every sentence.

I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of

Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking 'why?' all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did. I honestly have no idea.

My mom chooses her battles carefully, and I can tell you one thing about my family. When my mom does say something, she always gets her way.

But then Mr. Carlo told me to stop asking why? all the time and just follow the formulas. So, I did. Now, I get perfect scores on all my tests. I just wish I knew what the formulas did.

I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq.

Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!

I report, I decide.

Why even dictate? Well, like a lot of other dictators, there's one man's opinion I value above all others. Mine.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. So go crazy with the rules?the time your child spends trying to figure them out is time he won't be stapling firecrackers to the neighbor's dog.

I sat there driving through America wondering about Barry Soetoro and his disciples. I have never trusted people who think they know how everyone else should live, and demand those other people obey. I am not a good follower. Aaugh!

Whoever rules the waves rules the world. —Alfred Thayer Mahan Six

Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Chickenshit is so called—instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit—because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.

I read about a number of generals and colonels who are said to have wandered about exhorting the troops to advance. That must have been very inspirational! I suspect, however, that the men were more interested and more impressed by junior officers and NCOs who were willing to lead them rather than having some general pointing out the direction in which they should go.

You lead by fear or you lead by example. We were being led by fear.