position of authority
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
Would our aristocracy like that a man of low caste or insignificant origin, though he be a B. A. or M. A., and have the requisite ability, should be in a position of authority above them and have power in making laws that affect their lives and property? Never! Nobody would like it.
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.