Quotes About Authority

That it is to be a dictatorship of test tubes rather than of hobnailed boots will not make it any less a dictatorship.

If a man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

All scoundrels are based on this, to want to be...someone's big Other.

The madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king, but also a king who thinks he is a king.

Keeping a monopoly on legitimate violence is still the proven best way to limit violence and allow reason some asylum where it can be freely practiced.

The government does not owe the people education for the simple reason that one does not owe the people what it can take for itself. And education is like liberty: it is not given, it is taken.

fond of offending his superiors and is fond of making revolutions has never been known.

Lots of people have understood management as a way of throwing their weight around.

Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; Go is the sun.

Of course, I now see that good behaviour is the proper posture of the weak, of children.

Opinions, opinions, the King once said, what would the world cherish most, if not for my opinions?"

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that came before. Those books that allow us to forget the most are accorded he authority of the classic.

These days, managers are little more than peers with additional administrative responsibility. Sucking up to them is not a good use of your time.

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture; none of it under the right people.

Well we can't teach 'em, better pass 'em. Let those eradicate who can Man's inhumanity to man Through teaching boys to kiss the Flag, Keep their rooms tidy, kick a fag, Follow the leader, mind the rules, Blunt and ignore the only tools That interest the half-mature.

The council is a place where everyone schemes against everyone else, and people talk incessantly about Power with a capital "Pow".

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.

It's easy these days to buy a nation, but it's quite difficult to take it by force.

Nothing that was said in here would decide MacGregor's fate. That decision was being made elsewhere. This was not the highest Court in the land. The highest Court in the land was somewhere else in some unknown building; in a room with locked doors, a room which MacGregor would never enter and never see. This was a great camouflage for the authority that stemmed from another unknown source.

La introducción en un campo de conocimiento es más un adoctrinamiento que un estímulo del pensamiento crítico-científico. El tiempo de aprendizaje —en la ciencia tanto como en la industria, el arte o la religión— se caracteriza por una «sugestión de ideas puramente autoritaria».

Anarchism rejects authority in any form: to the principle of representation, it opposes the direct and independent action of individuals and masses: to !egalitarian and parliamentarian action, it opposes rebellion, insurrection, the general strike, the social revolution.

They couldn't sweat him, no matter what they did. Hey, they were gringos—no way were they going to do the kind of things to him the Mexican cops and the Federales would have done. Every Mexican gangster knows this—Los Yunaites is the land of human rights