Quotes About Authority

What I saw is Australia is very much an 'old boys' club. A lot of the ex-players carry a huge amount of weight and what they say, a lot goes, and that was the disappointing thing.

If we'd had a Svengali manager and done what we would have been told, maybe we would have had a bigger, more hugely successful career.

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

To make me believe that those men who have regulated education in our country have humanity in their hearts is to make me believe a lie.

The humble are in danger when those in power disagree.

But I don't really care for directors flaring up and trying to humble some actor, which they would do to try and make an example out of them so everybody else would stay on the ball - and David wasn't anything like that.

Fortunately for me, I had a father who didn't let us get away with anything. You were taught respect, and you were taught to be humble. That has a lot to do with how I am now, because I'm still scared of my dad.

The meek and the humble died at Mt. Carmel. And the strong and the arrogant - the FBI and the ATF - lived.

You could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life.

With 'Hunger Games,' it's about people rising up to fight against a corrupt government that controls them.

The words of mere men are as naught against the Word of God.

Martín de Córdoba, a distinguished Augustinian friar, disagreed strongly. In a book he wrote to guide Isabella in the exercise of authority, The Garden of Noble Ladies, he claimed that it was ignorant or old-fashioned to 'believe it evil when some kingdom or other polity falls to a woman's government … I, as I will declare, hold the contrary opinion.

A tyrant institutionalises stupidity, but he is the first servant of his own system and the first to be installed within it.

?ktidar hayat? hedef ald???nda hayat iktidara direni? olur.

Those whom Nietzsche calls masters are certainly powerful men, but not men of power, since power is in the gift of the values of the day.

Safer to be feared than loved.

To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting.

I don't have anything else to add. I just wanted to make sure I had the last word. I think I've earned that.

And I don't know, you're at that age, if a bunch of grownups are telling you something or encouraging you, it just … it started to feel real. That Ben had molested me, because otherwise, why were all these adults trying to get me to say he had? And my parents would be all stern: It's OK to tell the truth. It's OK to tell the truth. And so you told the lie that they thought was the truth.

The truth is malleable; you just need to pick the right expert.

Do not antagonize the cops, I told myself. Repeat if necessary: Do not antagonize the cops.

It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.

Mama Mo does not insist. She simply makes things a reality by assuming they are such:

Ser hija única conlleva una responsabilidad injusta; te educas en la certeza de que en realidad no tienes permitido causar desengaños, ni siquiera tienes permitido morir. No tienes sustitutas que puedan reemplazarte gateando por la casa; eres todo lo que hay. Eso te conduce a desesperarte por ser perfecta y también te vuelve ebria de poder. Así se crean los déspotas.