Quotes About Authority

I'll give you until nine P.M. tomorrow to get the bloody hell out of this country and out of my way. The nerve. I'd had to bite my tongue on the juvenile impulse to snap, Or what? -you're not the boss of me, second only to an even more juvenile impulse to call my mom and wail, Nobody likes me here and I don't even know why!

In Fae and mortal realms alike, he who controls the press controls the world.

Power is not good or evil. It is what it is in the hands of the wielder.

You will not look at me," she heard him say to the valets. "You will see only her." A silence. Then, "And you will not look at her breasts.

No man wants to sleep with a woman. He wants to fuck her. And nobody forces me to do shit.

I am the law." "Apparently. Heil." I click my heels together and salute.

What is the greater good but tyranny's chameleon? For eons it has changed skins to sate the current ruler's hunger for political and spiritual dominion.

She lives at my discretion. I can take her breath. I can give it back.

All good coups begin with the deposing of the current leader.

Unmute yourself," I demanded. "I. Am. Not. Muted." Did he ever sound pissed!

He can deal with not being able to control you as long as you let the world believe he does. He's king here, honey. Kings can't be challenged publicly.

Who wants to be around someone that can change them? Too much power to let another person have!

People's eyes are finally open, money's as worthless as it always really was. Used to amaze me when I was little how everybody passed around pieces of paper that they all agreed to pretend meant the same thing when everybody knew it didn't mean anything. It was the first adult conspiracy I became aware of. Made me think maybe no adults should ever be the boss of me. I'm the smartest person I know.

She gave him her most forbidding you-will-obey-me-little-boy-or-die glance. They waged a battle with their glares—his challenging, hers promising divine retribution—until with a gamin grin he leaped to his feet, slipped behind her, and was gone.

Those trousers could seduce a Templar Grand Master.

If that was how he asserted his control, she might just have to challenge his authority more often.

Decide, Ms. Lane," Barrons said, behind me. "Choose," V'lane agreed. "Go to hell, both of you! New world. New rules. New me. Don't call me. I'll call you.

Margaret Darlington had the kind of power that made sane people do insane things.

I am your sugarplum fairy commodore in chief.

No one can give you authority. But if you act like you have it, others will believe you do.

Because I said so." She paused again. "Sweetheart, I know you're an adult, but adults are like vampires. The older ones are much more powerful.

To have power means not to have to give in, and to force the environment or the other person to do so. Power in this narrow sense is the priority of output over intake, the ability to talk instead of listen. In a sense, it is the ability to afford not to learn.

The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.