Quotes About Authority

How to Think about Vladimir Putin." The latter defends the Russian dictator

To keep the place running smoothly, students' behavior becomes more important than their understanding, acquiescence more valued than inquiry

Do you think me a bloody eunuch, wench?" he questioned harshly. "Cover yourself before I spill your virgin blood!

The best way to keep a nation down is to silence their leadership," Jack said.

The character had repressed all his guilt and self-doubt, the things that might make him appealing to viewers. He was simply a cold, oppressive force, a modern woman's nightmare of what the boys in power can do, how they will let her go so far and then the gate slams shut and she can travel no further. No one will listen to her, no one will believe her, she has no money

I wish kids at school would quit calling me a porno dork-face, though. There wasn't any sex involved! I got knocked out, I panicked and called the cops. Okay, somewhere along the line everybody's clothes fell off, but that's not exactly a federal crime. Is it? I hope you don't work for the FBI. (You don't, do you?) - Email Excerpt (Page: 21) From: Douglas Bracken To: Dr. Rita I. Milton Sent: Friday, November 08 - 5:05 PM Subject: Pressing Concerns

One of the advantages of laws is that you can follow them blind, when you have lost all your moorings. You can't follow your instincts, but you can remember your rule.

It is the community that suffers when it refuses to validate any outside standards, and won't allow even the legitimate exercise of authority by the professionals it has hired.

Political power seems to corrupt religions, corroding them from within. It may be that as they age, and gain respectability in the social sphere, religions need to be brought back to the essentials of their faith and practice.

Bring the heat, bring the stupid. It was the Army way.

People who command respect are never as widely known as people who command attention. For

Choice is an illusion promoted by the powerful.

There are 4 kinds of people on the planet. There are foot soldiers, the people who tell the foot soldiers to do, double agents, then there are the ones who have to deal with the first three just to walk outside to live there lives to be who they are.

Think of them like gods, Janice said, because that's what they are. The nape of a human neck is especially easy to see through – that's why they love it when we bow our heads. It doesn't have anything to do with praying. Prayers bore them.

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger

The communist authorities told Mother Teresa that they had no poor in China, because in China the government looked after the poor, whereupon Mother Teresa informed them that she was delighted to hear that they had no poor but that she thought perhaps there might be some people who were disheartened and in need of a little encouragement. She and her Sisters would like to bring hope to the discouraged. That much the Chinese government was prepared to allow them to do.

There are times when the law jeopardizes those who obey it.

It's possible to name everything and to destroy the world.

cause humans, above all, fear intelligence. how humans, scared out of their minds, gather whatever intelligence they can put their hands on and put it all in a central penitentiary named facts...

living with a teenage daughter is like living with the Taliban a mum is not allowed to laugh, sing, dance or wear short skirts

I blame Mother Nature two-faced bitch and Father Time bloody bastard .Yep those misogynistic killjoys have cut off my pocket money and left me grounded.With those two authoritarian heavyweights ganging up what chance does a woman have I aks you

Remember, I might be the wind, but you control the kite.

Contacting a government office on a weekend is like phoning the Pope on Easter morning.

Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions." Ben shot Hi a stern look. "No running commentary." "Your loss," Hi said. "To the pimp ride!