Quotes About Authority

granted him a broad and unspecified authority. In his sunny way, Creel would take that authority and run with it, going to extremes that must be described as alarming. In 1917, the United States remained intensely divided over

kings and queens once depended on the mystique of inaccessibility as an expression of power.

The most direct and obvious way authoritarians abridge freedom is to limit or discourage or ban outright certain options—NO CHOCOLATE, for instance. The

We sometimes treat the information industries as if they were like any other enterprise, but they are not, for their structure determines who gets heard. It is in this context that Fred Friendly, onetime CBS News president, made it clear that before any question of free speech comes the question of "who controls the master switch.

Markets are born free, yet no sooner are they born than some would-be emperor is forging chains. Paradoxically,

Racism was an important moral issue, one that the church needed to confront. Putting a black man in a position of honor and authority was a good thing, and if there was controversy over it, that was not a bad thing thing, either. People needed to work through these things, and not just in the abstract.

Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.

Should they call the police, they would be reporting something already known, and even encouraged

the Klan had "changed its bed sheets for a policeman's uniform.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Most members of the incoming state legislature took orders from the hooded order, as did the majority of the congressional delegation.

But at the time, she was too scared to do anything. His reach into the cops and courts, he told her, was beyond anything she could imagine.

With a snicker, the cop said that the editor could always take his complaint to higher-ups—Muncie's chief of police or the Delaware County sheriff, both Klansmen who'd recently passed by in front of them. Or he could go directly to the prosecutor, the one hidden by mask and robe at the head of the Klan parade.

the most powerful Klan in history, the only realm that had complete political control of a state.

Fully half the town of 30,000 belonged to the Klan, including mayor, prosecutor, police force, and school board.

At the time, she was too traumatized to go to the police and report a felony committed by one of the most powerful men in the state. And besides, what good would it do? The Kokomo cops were Klansmen.

D. C. Stephenson was telling the state's top elected officials what to do. And they followed the Klansman's every order.

We are the law itself—the same boast would be heard in Indiana

For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.

It is possible to know all there is to know about a subject—medicine, for example—but if you don't have M.D. at the end of your name, few will listen. The M.D. is what I term a "credibility indicator." The so-called expert with the most credibility indicators, whether acronyms or affiliations, is often the most successful in the marketplace, even if other candidates have more in-depth knowledge. This is a matter of superior positioning, not deception.

La culpa es de mi jefe".

The Power of Persuasion by Robert Levine. The

expulsamos a un par de jefes de cada equipo SEAL por su incapacidad para mandar.

3. En caso de duda, córtales el oxígeno.