Quotes About Authority

I'd read somewhere that if you want to make people pay attention to what you're saying, you don't raise your voice but lower it: this is what really commands attention.

Khrennikov had an average ear for music, but perfect pitch when it came to power.

I nodded to him with the authority of a young academic approving a peasant.

She spoke like a tsar issuing a ukase, and it was clear she would brook no further argument.

You wouldn't let him do it, would you, Jamie? Jamie's expression was very serene. She stared at Andrew when she spoke to her husband. With your permission, I would like to answer him. You have it, Alec replied. Andrew, she called out in a voice as cold and clear as a frigid winter morning, my husband does whatever he wishes to do. I am sometimes allowed to help, though. If he decides to cut off your feet, I will, of course, offer him my assistance.

Listen, you. Don't threaten me. I could make your life a nightmare. He put his hand in front of her face and unfolded three fingers as he said, I'm F-B-I. She smiled. It wasn't the reaction he expected. You want to talk nightmares? she said. She put her hand up to his face and unfolded her three fingers. I'm I-R-S.

He who controls the remote, controls the world

Brenna jumped to her feet the second Father Sinclair entered the chamber. I'm so happy to see you, she cried out. Be happy sitting down, Jamie ordered, hovering over her patient like a mother hen.

It's the wife's duty, isn't it, to be submissive to her husband? Christina asked. It is, Lyon answered. His hands moved to the fastenings on her dress. Oh, yes, it definitely is. Then I shall be submissive, Lyon, Christina announced. When it suits me.

Do you honestly believe I would have instructed the man to pay attention to what I was saying if I'd known all the while that he is the King of Scotland?

A wife must do whatever her husband orders her to do." The command didn't sit well with her. "This wife doesn't." "Damn it, Gillian, don't turn stubborn on me." "A husband doesn't curse in his wife's presence." "This husband does," he snapped.

The girl is not yours, or mine, or anyone's. But for now, she travels under my protection, and let him who lays a hand on her answer to me.

But if you remove a tyrant in anything other than an open and visible way, another tyrant soon stands up to replace him.

Amazing, I thought nobody could tell that man what to do. -Foalan to Bridei Talking about Broichan

Take control. Tell everyone what's going to happen and stick to the plan, whatever it is.

Es wird nicht mehr die Idee sein, die Wert und Macht einem Individuum gibt, sondern das Individuum, das Wert, Macht und Rechtfertigung einer Idee gibt.

In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways. Indeed, originality is recognized as disobedience, pathology, incorrigible character and/or unlawful conduct to be prosecuted by the state.

from 'officials', who held more senior positions. The

Unlike most founding dictators—Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler—Mao did not inspire a passionate following through his oratory, or ideological appeal. He simply sought willing recruits among his immediate circle, people who would take his orders.

Every word of Chairman Mao's is universal absolute truth, and every word equals ten thousand words!

It was all too clear that Cixi was the only person who could hold the empire together.

The ordeal of the invasion rather than damaging Cixi's authority, had enhanced it and brought her a new sense of security and confidence.

For all her faults, she was no despot.

I reached under the seat for my radar detector, which is thoroughly and completely illegal in the state of Connecticut, and floored it.