Quotes About Authority

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Pandangan monolitik media-media besar yang tampil secara konsisten harus dicurigai sebagai upaya untuk mempertahankan status quo yang ada.

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There is, in fact, a strong case to be made that a prime concern of government is the security of state power from the population. As

Si la escuela fuera verdaderamente democrática, no sería necesario adoctrinar con tópicos sobre la democracia.

the masters represent "the national interest," like those who applauded themselves for leading the country to war "after the utmost deliberation by the more thoughtful members of the community" had reached its "moral verdict.

The need to humiliate those who raise their heads is an ineradicable element of the imperial mentality. In

This broad tendency in human development seeks to identify structures of hierarchy, authority and domination that constrain human development, and then subject them to a very reasonable challenge: Justify yourself. If these structures can't meet that challenge, they should be dismantled—and, anarchists believe, "refashioned from below," as commentator Nathan Schneider observes. In

Oggi come ieri, non c'è motivo di pensare che siamo governati da leggi misteriose e sconosciute, anziché da semplici decisioni prese all'interno di istituzioni che sono soggette alla volontà umana, istituzioni umane, che devono dimostrare la propria legittimità e se non superano l'esame possono essere sostituite da altre più libere e più giuste, com'è accaduto spesso in passato.

every form of authority and domination and hierarchy, every authoritarian structure, has to prove that it's justified—it has no prior justification

though of course the weak would have to be insane to implement their rights

at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to—rather than alleviate—material and cultural deficit. If

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

I mean, it's nice to have the laws, but it's nice partly because it makes it easier to struggle for your rights-it's not that the laws give you the rights. Laws can be on the books and mean absolutely nothing

stupid orders for years and years—that's the way I did it, for example. Like, you're told by some stupid teacher, "Do this," which you know makes no sense whatsoever, but you do it, and if you do it you get to the next rung, and then you obey the next order, and finally you

That is the nature of being well educated. It is to accept the framework of power and not question it.

Basically, the idea of the aristocrats is that power has to be vested in a special class of particularly distinguished and privileged people, who will make the decisions and do the right thing.

dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.

si quieres derribar un gobierno, armas a su ejército y, por supuesto, haces difícil que funcione el gobierno civil.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Freedom of the press belongs to the man who owns one.

When people weren't allowed to go their own way, they were more likely to break than bend.

Every professor worth his PhD should have a fireplace in his study.

I don't allow my child to drink carbonated sugar! Well, bless your heart. With that eyebrow arch for Charlotte, Lily took Cate's hand. Guess who's not in charge today?