Quotes About Authority

If you're not cop, you're little people.

captain's office?" he asked.

She keyed the mic. "I'm not in detectives. Hold my 'boyfriend' there. I'll come get him." "Roger that." "Hey, L-T. We have a PO on Hollywood roster

justice is incidental to law and order.

Mr. Elliot will see you now.

Power is neither male or female.

Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought.

He finally decided that children liked dinosaurs because these giant creatures personified the uncontrollable force of looming authority. They were symbolic parents.

there was no objective truth, only the truth that's established by power.

And of course we know that social control is best managed through fear.

for the last fifteen years we have been under the control of an entirely new complex, far more powerful and far more pervasive. I call it the politico-legal-media complex. The PLM. And

You have to realize, all these decisions are about power. Sexual harassment is about power, and so is the company's resistance to dealing with it.

Presidents and generals and all the important people in position to make the most important decisions are, by and large, the least equipped for making them.

What's really wrong with making them the problem is that you abdicate your own responsibility. Once you say some mysterious they is in charge, then you're able to sit back comfortably and complain about how they are doing it.

He believes that a real work of art can be owned but should not be subject to capture; that it should radiate such authority, such bizarre but confident beauty (or unbeauty) that it can't be undone by even the most ludicrous sofas or side tables. A real work of art should rule the room, and the clients should call up not to complain about the art but to say that the art has helped them understand how the room is all a horrible mistake, can Peter suggest a designer to help them start over again.

Who has more power than a child? She can be as cruel as she wants to be. He can't.

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Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity.

This, after all, is the king who passed the law about putting trousers on cats and dogs, who made too-loud laughter a punishable crime. According to rumor, he was abused by his father, the last king. But that's the story people always tell, isn't it, when they want to explain inexplicable behavior?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Truth lies in the hands of its editor.

It's not respect but fear that motivates a man; that's how empires are built and revolutions begin. It is the secret of great men.

All members of a Cabinet are referred to as Right. Honorable Gentlemen. There are only three things wrong with such a title ...