Quotes About Authority

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

Eva, I am orderin' ye to go." "Well, you can order all you bloody like, my lord husband, but I will not leave your side until I get the bleeding stopped," she snapped and Connall gaped at her, unable to believe his sweet, witty, lovely little bride had spoken to him so. Were wives not supposed to obey their husbands? He was sure he recalled that in the wedding ceremony. "Come

O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) Independent Authority against Corruption (IAAC], visited Korea and extended the Korea- Mongolia MOU on anti-corruption cooperation. In the extended MOU, both countries agreed to make more efforts for the implementation of the MOU

Imam gospodaricu koju sam dužan da slušam, ona vlada mnom, vama, svetom, ?ak i ovim današnjim svetom napolju, a ta gospodarica je pravda. U nju sam oduvek verovao, verujem i danas, i pravda je jedini putokaz mog postupanja...

Poetska re? je jednako kao i filozofska u stanju da stoji i da se u odvojenosti "teksta" u kome se artikuliše iskaže sa sopstvenim autoritetom. "Filozofija i poezija

Der Staat ist die Einheit eines Systems von Normen, die regeln, unter welchen Bedingungen ein bestimmter Zwang von Mensch zu Mensch geübt werden soll.

Cuando la burguesía ve huir el poder de sus manos, recurre al fascismo para mantenerse. Buenaventura Durruti

Bitler, politikan?n önemli bir parças? olmu?tur. ?sveç Hurdenburg'da, Orta Ça?'daki belediye ba?kan? seçimi anlat?l?r: "Adaylar masan?n etraf?na oturur, ba?lar?n? e?ip sakallar?n? masaya koyarlar. Sonra bir bit masan?n ortas?na konur ve hangisinin sakal?na giderse o, s?radaki y?l için belediye ba?kan? seçilir.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

I hate when a director says to me 'Here's how I envision this scene'...excuse me? It's right here in the script - I 'envisioned' it FOR you. Do what I wrote. If you want to 'envision', you should become a writer. Where the fuck were you when the page was blank?

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

Someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in tranquility, is a fool and a liar. To understand is to tremble. To recollect is to re-enter and riven......I admire the authority of being on one's knees in front of an event.

The discipline that makes an effective leader begins in the home.

A commander in battle has three means of influencing the action: Fire support, now pouring down in torrents; his personal presence on the battlefield; and the use of his reserve.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

Indeed, in 1794, George Washington had not only authorized sending national troops into battle against Pennsylvanians resisting the whiskey tax, he had taken to the field to lead the forces himself. Later, Andrew Jackson had acted boldly to crush South Carolina's attempt to nullify the 1832 tariff.

civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men.

No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

Management must manage!