Quotes About Authority

You owe these cats nothing," hissed Tigerclaw.

Who died and put you in charge?' Moon Shadow demanded, his tail-tip twitching in annoyance. 'Shaded Moss, actually,' Tall Shadow replied.

Good, whispered the voice in Tigerclaw's mind. These cats must make no decisions on their own, not unless you want them to feel more powerful than you.

Because I was afraid she would claw my ears off if I forbade her from going," Bramblestar responded drily.

If mercy is power, then I have never been more powerful.

Clear Sky was padding toward his cats. "Why are you even listening to a cat who only left the mountains because he was following his littermate? He was born to follow. I was born to lead!

With a shock like a plunge into icy water, Leafstar realized that she no longer trusted her deputy.

great power.

Thank StarClan I'm not. You're about as much use as a dead fox. Very well, Darkstripe, do as you like.

Bumblestripe shrugged. "He snapped at Hazeltail for getting in the way, hissed at Cherrypaw for trampling on Ferncloud's moss, and ordered Foxleap and Toadstep to fetch comfrey." He glanced warily over his shoulder. "So I guess he's fine.

I'm Monkeystar," the tortoiseshell announced. "I'm Clan leader, so I mostly decide what we do each day.

Just remember this: power is neither good nor bad, but its user makes it so.

Deputy? What was the point of being deputy? "I want to be the leader!" Crookedpaw

Leopardstar blinked. "I have.

Bramblestar mewed

The inanimate, lifeless cloud that resembles carded cotton has of course no knowledge of us, when it comes to our aid, it is not because it takes pity on us. It cannot appear and disappear without receiving orders. Rather it acts in accordance with the orders of a most powerful and compassionate commander.

God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.

The legitimacy of the government depends on the continuous exercise of an act of forgetting.

You're not God. Nothing is your fault, except, perhaps, poor teaching.