Quotes About Authority

The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots.

curled in the cavernous leather chair and faced Doctor Gordon across an acre of highly polished desk. Doctor

At about this point I began to feel peculiar. I looked round me at all the rows of rapt little heads with the same silver glow on them at the front and the same black shadow on them at the back, and they looked nothing more or less than a lot of stupid moonbrains.

Fixed stars govern a life

Bridí sa mi predstava, že ma nejaký muž bude maÃ…Â¥ pod palcom. Muži nemajú na tomto svete nijaké starosti, kým ja budem maÃ…Â¥ nad hlavou dieÃ…Â¥a ako ve?kú palicu, aby som držala hubu a krok.

she) ends up steering New York like her own private car.

No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!

I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government, But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation.

I am a scholar. My only monarch is truth.

A veces ser el que ostenta el mando significa poseer menos libertad que la que tiene el menor de los siervos. Jarnauga

stupid people trying to manage me sends me into acute depression.

The wise man is not waiting for the realness of the world to prove itself to him. How can one be an authority before the experiencing of this realness? My master taught me—and to me it seems chash, meaning correct—that you must not defend against the entering of knowledge.

That is what I hate about ruling and royalty, Simon. It is living, breathing people with whom a prince plays the games of statecraft.

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

And forget not this: that outward semblance of authority is not a necessary symptom of its essence. There are men in high place who have no authority at all beyond what indolence confers because the indolence of many is the opportunity of one. Such men lead multitudes astray.--From The Book Of The Sayings Of Tsiang Samdup

door, or I'll kick it in. I mean it. And guess whose allowance will pay for the repairs?" She could hear him stirring then, muttering curse words. "No swearing!" she snapped. "You do it!" "Not when I think you can

Sabin get his way. He wanted Kovac to

handcuffs, no pistol-whipping . . .

I well knew the rules to follow with our training Dogs: Speak when you're spoken to. Keep out of the way. Obey all orders. Get killed on your own time.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.

My new knight mistress is famed for wielding sharp edges: Sword, Knife and Tongue!

There is power and there is power, my dear. My power can be vast, in the right places.

Money talks and walks, but it does not bark.