Quotes About Authority

What am I supposed to call you?""Your Royal Husbandness. It's required by law, I'm afraid.

Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn.

I was made to rule the darkness.

Controlling others is the cornerstone of dysfunctional families.

One who has great love has great power.

Just fancy! He is only nine-and-twenty, and he has an immense lunatic asylum all under his own care.

what good are peasants without a leader?

Judge Moneybag will settle this case, I think!

Do not threaten the supreme gigantic overlords. We do as we please.

break the rules pay the price

When a government becomes unjust, honor is often found among the lawless.

Learn to recognize power in others. Become more conscious of your own power. It's there.

Unless the punishments are enforced, rules lose all their power.

once had a mother, too. Just having the title doesn't mean you do the job.

We are more than pawns, Kate. We are free to make our own choices. Kings and bishops shall not forever determine the fate of free men. (Frith) You're fleeing the wrath of a bishop, aren't you, and the king's soldiers? How can you be anything but a pawn in a dangerous game? (Kate) My choice, Kate. My choice not to play by the bishop's rules. A man whose spirit is free will never be a pawn in somebody else's game no matter what the consequences of his choice. (John) (p. 121)

what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you have the right to do it.

A child should never even think about being a good son. A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.

Honey?" she asks. "Don't call me that," I snap. "What? Honey?" she asks. "Yes," I snap again. "What do you want me to call you?" she asks, indignantly. "CEO?" She stifles a giggle. "Oh Christ." "No, really Patrick. What do you want me to call you?" King, I'm thinking.

She's been drinking champagne kirs but has already had too many and when she orders her sixth I suggest that maybe she's had enough. She looks at me and says, I am cold and thirsty and I will order what I fucking want. I say, Then have an Evian or San Pellegrino for Christ sakes.

Gaze into the fist of Dredd!

they continue to perpetuate patriarchy and proclaim a patriarchal universe.

They uncritically deploy verses like Romans 13:1–2 to squash dissent ("Submit to the governing authorities, for all authority is instituted by God and anyone who opposes authority is standing against what God has established").

For those who regress, the fear of what lies beyond Complexity feels so terrifying, or the sense of belonging that is often found in strict Stage One communities feels so alluring, that they willingly resubmit to Stage One authority, or even authoritarianism.

If God dominates the world and everything in it with an iron fist (or rod, as in Psalm 2:9 and Revelation 2:27), we may find ourselves more amenable to authoritarians who do the same, especially if they hold up Bibles in front of churches.