To explain.
In the waning days of the colonization of ch'Rihan (what would be best known as Romulus) a new ruler rose to power based on her charisma and ruthlessness. In her hubris she stormed into the council chambers of the colonies (it was not yet the Romulan Senate) with her thugs and took a seat for herself basically at gunpoint. S'task, the philosophical founder of the Rihannsu (Romulans) and the one who ended up leading the fleet from their old homeworld to their new, simply stood and moved to leave.
The new tyrant stood and said: "I did not give you leave to go."
S'task turned to her, an ancient old man, and replied: "I have no need to ask it, of you especially."
The tyrant stated: "I shall kill you if you do not ask leave!"
S'task then turned to her, scorn in his eyes and voice and stated coldly: "You may do so. That is the prerogative of force. But I give no honor to force. Power, yes. But you have no power, none that I recognize. I ask no leave of you. " And with that, he walked from the chambers and none stopped him.