Authority quotes

“- Miss Burke: I've had complaints from several students that you've sold them mind-altering substances. Now, do you wanna talk to me about it, or take it up with Principal Drake?
- Zeke: You're too tense, Miss Burke. But I've got just the thing for ya.
- Miss Burke: You know, Zeke, I am the authority figure here, it's time you realized that.”
Famke Janssen - Miss Elizabeth Burke
Josh Hartnett - Zeke Tyler

“One man with gun has more authority than whole army without ammunition.”
Sidney Toler - Charlie Chan

“Never show any mercy. If you do, people will take advantage of you.”
Toshiya Agata - Captain Iwasaki

“I've never met an Emperor before, much less a god. What the hell do you say to a god?”
Tommy Lee Jones - General Douglas MacArthur

“- Phillip Elliott: Jo Bob is here to remind us that the biggest and the baddest get to make all the rules.
- Charlotte Caulder: I don't agree with that.
- Phillip Elliott: Agreeing doesn't play into it.”
Nick Nolte - Phillip Elliott
Dayle Haddon - Charlotte Caulder

“- Lily: It's the law, right? The man explained everything to me. Anything that falls from the sky belongs to the law, alright.
- Micky: I don't see them coming around here to claim all the rain and the pollution.”

Brenda Fricker - Lily
Ian Costello - Micky

“You must show your strength, reassert your authority. You sit on the most powerful throne in Europe, head of an unbroken line that goes back more than a thousand years.”
Sylvia Syms - Queen Mother

“This is my town. Okay? I'm the sheriff here. I'll tell you what stands. Not the other way around. Now please get out of my building.”

Michael Bowen - Sheriff Stan Watkins

“When your God tells you to beat the shit out of somebody, you do it. That's what religion is all about!”
Matthew King - Charlie

“That's enough! Be silent! You will obey me whether you want to or not! You will obey because poor as I am, I am placed in authority over you. You will not speak disrespectfully to me or raise your voice to me.”

Sophie Marceau - Elisabeth Laurier

“You are the authority on what is not possible, aren't you Irene? They've got you looking for any flaw, that after a while that's all you see. For what it's worth, I'm here to tell you that it is possible. It is possible.”

Ethan Hawke - Vincent Freeman

- Charles "Commie" Comiskey: We feel that we need a commissioner who will clean up baseball and give a new face to the sport. We're prepared to grant you certain powers...
- Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis: Absolute powers.
- Charles "Commie" Comiskey: Absolute powers?
- Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis: Won't work any other way. People won't believe... (continue)(continue reading)
Clifton James - Charles "Commie" Comiskey
John Anderson - Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis

“- Bernardo: Now I will not say these things to spoil your evening or to hear myself talk. I am here longer than you, Maria. Someday, when you're an old married woman with five children, then you can tell me what to do. Right now, it's the other way around. Now go to bed.
- Anita: He's the old married woman.”

George Chakiris - Bernardo
Rita Moreno - Anita

“I'm the authority here!”
Donald Sutherland - Jacob Conrad

“- Noah Vosen: She's in league with Jason Bourne, for Christ's sake.
- Pam Landy: You do not have the authority to kill her.
- Noah Vosen: Oh yes I do! And you had better get on board.
- Pam Landy: Noah, she's one of us. You start down this path, where does it end?
- Noah Vosen: It ends when we've won.”

David Strathairn - Noah Vosen
Joan Allen - Pam Landy

“Washington, and all of us, are gravely concerned over this growing contempt for taxes. Agents are herewith directed to discourage non-compliance through investigation, prosecution, and other statutory actions within our broad authority.”
James Ray - Commissioner

“- Dr. Ben Sobel: You said you were fighting. You were rebelling against his authority. There may have been some unresolved Oedipal conflict.
- Paul Vitti: English.
- Dr. Ben Sobel: Oedipus was a Greek king who killed his father and married his mother.
- Paul Vitti: Fuckin' Greeks.”
Billy Crystal - Dr. Ben Sobel
Robert De Niro - Paul Vitti

“- Sierra: Winnie, shut up!
- Winnie: I don't have to shut up. I'm captain.
- Brianna: Yeah, and since you became captain, you've been a bigger pain in our asses than before.”
Jessica Nicole Fife - Sierra
Emme Rylan - Winnie
Danielle Savre - Brianna

“- Steele: Tell me, Pilla. You understand why we have a chain of command, don't you?
- Pilla: Roger that, sir.
- Steele: 'Cause if I ever see you undermining me again, you'll be cleaning latrines with your tongue 'til you can't taste the difference between shit and french fries. Are we clear?”
Jason Isaacs - Steele
Danny Hoch - Pilla

“- Dale 'Hurricane' Dixon: I don't have the legal authority.
- Fantasia: You didn't have the legal authority to fuck me when I was 17-years-old... but that didn't stop you, did it?”
Bill Paxton - Dale 'Hurricane' Dixon
Cynda Williams - Fantasia

“If there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.”
Nicolas Cage - Benjamin Franklin Gates

“My world, my rules.”
Jennifer Lopez - Catharine Deane

“- Feldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel: Your report impressed the Führer. He has appointed you commander of Berlin's defenses.
- General Weidling: I'd rather be shot than have this honor.”
Dieter Mann - Feldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Michael Mendl - General Weidling

“You know, people will think what I tell them to think. That's how authority works.”
Peter Sarsgaard - Carson

“- Paul Bradley: Would you really have gone across my bows?
- Coast Guard Officer: Yes, sir!
- Paul Bradley: Then I would have rammed you.
- Coast Guard Officer: All the way to the bottom, sir!”
Sir Sean Connery - Paul Bradley
Burke Byrnes - Coast Guard Officer