Quotes About Authority

Qué policía había que nos defendiera a nosotros cuando nos iban a matar? De haber habido, nos habrían detenido para extorsionarnos.Pero no, andaban extorsionando en el centro.

Porque yo con este idioma hago lo que se me dé mi real gana.

Es que Dios, como Pablo Escobar no mata por mano propia, Él no se ensucia: para eso tiene sus sicarios.

A veces se hacía presente con un silbido, que decía algo así como «Fufichu». Si en un momento dado no sabía quién estaba en la casa gritaba: «¡Alguno!» Pero con el correr del tiempo alguno se volvió nadie, y cerrados nuestros oídos a sus palabras nadie volvió a hacerle caso. La voz mandona de Lía sólo la oyeron entonces las paredes. O las vecinas.

Sigan brillando, genios nuestros de la administración y de las leyes, que mientras más brillen ustedes nosotros más nos apagamos.

Kötü yönetmenler çoÄŸunlukla deri ceket ve topuklu botlar giyerler ve kendilerine hitap edilmemiÅŸ olsa da konuÅŸurlar.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, conthrols th' ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th' people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' th' lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f'r it, but it's a kind iv a disgrace. It's like writin' anonymous letters.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind.

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

Funny how being decrepit, diseased and sentenced to death gave you so much power. She couldn't go to Morocco nor even drive herself into town. She could hardly move off the couch. But she could say whatever she wanted: she had bitch licence.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

The bold dictate the terms.

When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.

Phil Cooper was eleven years old when he began to understand that his father meant to bend him to his will.

Inside, a mother superior, ethereal, delicate, who took me under her wing. She caressed me with her slender, soft hands, she sat next to me as if I were a friend. One day she disappeared. In her place arrived a buxom Swiss from Canton Uri. It's common knowledge that a new leader will hate the predecessors' favourites. A boarding school is like a harem.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Man has power and dominion over the elements. We should be able "to rebuke the wind and the waves." We should be able to put an end to drought.

Quien propicia el poder de otro, labra su propia ruina".

Dicen que ser padre es el oficio más difícil —señaló Kova?—. Se debe ejercer la suficiente autoridad para marcar límites y educarlo y por otra parte se debe conceder la libertad necesaria para no socavarle la personalidad ni la autoestima. Hallar ese equilibrio es materia de estudio hasta el día de hoy.

I have it on good authority that I was born in Utah.

Parents who give a lot of warnings raise kids who don't behave until they've had a lot of warnings.