Quotes About Authority

want your obedience. I expect it—no, I demand it. I don't relish nor will I enjoy the idea of punishing you. So if you seek to bait me so that you enjoy the thrill of discipline, you're sure to be disappointed.

The dominant ruling class of our time owns and controls information.

Kings don't sneak.

I won't tell you how I managed to break in, since I don't want the authorities figuring out, but let's just say that if you're going to make a gate, make sure it reaches all the way to the ground.

I might look like a honey-eyed schoolgirl on the outside, in my skirt with its regulation four-inches-above-the-knee hem. But I'll rip those tassels off your shoes, old man. Just try Googling me.

I can command the Royal Genovian Air Force, Grandmère supposedly replied. As well as the Royal Genovian Navy. But the one thing in the world I have no control over, Helen, is your womb. Now come along.

You coulld put girls' boyfriends in jail, and I could teach the immigrants how to dress!!!

HRH Olivia Grace

I wouldn't care what she said. She's Luisa Ferrari. She has no power over me.

Would you rather be the mayor from the movie Jaws who keeps the beaches open when there's a killer shark out there? Or do you want to be the sheriff who turns out to be right about the killer shark, and saves thousands of people's lives?

Get to the point, Dad. I have a country to run.

How about y'all take a seat now, and let's get right to business,' Muffy says as she tucks her cream-colored skirt beneath her in a ladylike manner. We all do as she suggested and take a seat, with the exception of Special Agent Lancaster, who declares he'd prefer to stand. I suppose if he sat down, the stick up his butt would lodge so deeply into his brain that he would instantly expire, and then we'd have another corpse on our hands, so it's just as well.

Intimidation was a drug. But control was an illusion.

Then he wrote a letter to the governor.

Chloe. She, Judy-Moody-not-Stink, was in charge of piles and piles of money and got to dish

From shadow queen to puppet queen in one rule, he whispered. That's very impressive. When he rules your country and he tells you he loves you, I hope you believe him. He anticipated her blow and leaned back. Her hand only brushed his cheek in an entirely unsatisfying manner. At least that's one lie I didn't tell you.

My beautiful queen. Your entire court is staring at you, and I can't blame them. They were, too. The queen turned to look. Her glance swept through the crowd like a reaping sickle through grain. Mouths slammed shut on every side. There was a scuffling sound as the people in the back shifted, trying to screen themselves from view. The queen looked back at the king, who was broadly smiling.

Costis bowed stiffly. "I am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it... My purse is full enough, said the magus, to keep you supplied with roast chickens. So, so, so, I said. We know who the power behind the throne is, and the magus laughed. You eat more than Gen did after prison, he said. I have more sympathy with him all the time. Are you going to finish that drumstick? I asked. I am. Stop staring at it.

Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

That one,-he nodded toward the closed door- will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.

I thought that being king meant I didn't have to kill people myself. I see know that was another misconception.

She was the stone-faced queen, then and ever after. She had needed the mask to rule, and she had been glad to have it. She wondered if Eugenides was glad of his.