Quotes About Authority

Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this institutional wisdom is itself the product of schools because sound common sense tells us that only children can be taught in school. Only by segregating human beings in the category of childhood could we ever get them to submit to the authority of a schoolteacher.

In fact, healthy students often redouble their resistance to teaching as they find themselves more comprehensively manipulated. This resistance is due not to the authoritarian style of a public school or the seductive style of some free schools, but to the fundamental approach common to all schools-the idea that one person's judgment should determine what and when another person must learn.

Una vez que un hombre o una mujer ha aceptado la necesidad de la escuela, es fácil presa de otras instituciones

Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can be known only in orderly successions; and that only teachers can properly reveal these secrets. An individual with a schooled mind conceives of the world as a pyramid of classified packages accessible only to those who carry the proper tags.

A nihilist is a man who does not bow to any authorities, who does not take any principle on trust, no matter with what respect that principle is surrounded.

Bob" can handle the aliens, but we must police ourselves.

A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.

If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear.

Diskurse herrschen nicht. Sie erzeugen eine kommunikative Macht, die die administrative nicht ersetzen kann, sondern nur beeinflussen kann.

It is not for nothing that the king of a commonwealth is called "Sire"; humanly speaking, of the callings of fatherhood and kingship, the deeper and more primordial is fatherhood.

The chief objection to playing God is that someone else is God already.

See, once a person see what you will do if they don't, they let you keep on doin it! All of it! If you let them!

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Justice is incedental to law and order.

Dictatorship is power based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws.

J. Edgar Hoover

Calmness is the cradle of power.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Why, dear boy, we don't send wizards to Azkaban just for blowing up their aunts.

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed—or worse, expelled.

You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. (Matt. 20:25–28)

Exodus 4:14). Let us not pass the buck of leadership because we think ourselves incapable.

If the world is to hear the church's voice today, leaders are needed who are authoritative, spiritual, and sacrificial. Sacrificial, because this trait follows the model of Jesus, who gave Himself for the whole world and who calls us to follow in His steps.

Often truly authoritative leadership falls on someone who years earlier dedicated themselves to practice the discipline of seeking first the kingdom of God. Then, as that person matures, God confers a leadership role, and the Spirit of God goes to work throuh him.