Quotes About Authority

As you sit there and as I sit here, they are going in. They're taking over, and they just walk in and they can do whatever they want. They have essentially already taken it over.

Hillary Clinton's raising the money from the people she wants to control.

I don't think we should have justices appointed that decide what they want to hear.

The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers!

I'm not a god in the traditional fashion, I am a patron. Patrons have responsibilities. Granted, I rarely have the opportunity to exercise them.

There exists an exchange of trust between the ruler and the ruled. Abuse that from either direction and all mutual agreements are nullified.

A man possessing power must act decisively, Ganoes Paran. Else it trickle away through his fingers.

Before Lord Anomander Rake the crowd in the street shrank back, all thoughts of festivity swept away.

The power he commanded insisted upon subjects. Strength was ever relative, and he could not dominate without the company of the dominated.

In natural justice, Arathan, the weak cannot hide, unless we grant them the privilege. And understand, it is ever a privilege, for wich the weak should be eternally grateful. At any given moment, should the strong will it, they can swing a sword and end the life of the weak. And that will be today's lesson. Forbearance.

The tyrant thrives when the first fucking fool salutes.

Power may have ten thousand faces, but the look in the eyes of every one of them is the same.

Since when did ethics and morality become weapons of submission?

he ordered, eyes lingering on the Tiste Andii.

Some people just don't like being told what they can and can't do." "Some people use that line to rationalize being assholes

Whoever waited outside was impatient – thunder rang imperiously through the room even as the old man reached for the bar.

We are contrary creatures, us humans, but that isn't something we need be afraid of, or even much troubled by. And if you make a list of those people who worship consistency, you'll find they're one and all tyrants or would-be tyrants. Ruling over thousands, or over a husband or a wife, or some cowering child.

Power and immunity, a most deadly combination.

After all, tyranny has no sense of humour. Too thin-skinned, too thoroughly full of its own self-importance. Accordingly, it presents an almost overwhelming temptation – how can I not be excused the occasional mockery?

Never mind the truth. The past is what I say it is. That is the freedom of teaching the ignorant

Qué es lo que convierte a un soldado malazano en un miliciano tan peligroso? Se les permite pensar.

For a long time, Lostara had concluded that the woman in command of the Bonehunters was simply incapable of revealing her vulnerable side.

And now here I sit, on my brow a circlet of fire, and this kingdom I rule is naught but the host of my life's recollections, unruly subjects, so eager for insurrection, to usurp the aged man from his charred throne and raise up younger versions one by one.