Quotes About Authority

Those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best.

Clifford Adams recalled, "They stopped people from communicating, from going to churches, closed the schools, . . . closed all the saloons. . . . Everything was quiet.

execute, is that those who occupy positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society.

positions of authority must lessen the panic that can alienate all within a society.

In 1918 the lies of officials and of the press never allowed the terror to condense into the concrete. The public could trust nothing and so they knew nothing. Society is, ultimately, based on trust; as trust broke down, people became alienated not only from those in authority, but from each other.

He who thinks he leads, but has no followers, is only taking a walk.

Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.

I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.

It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.

Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.

Schooling is a manufacturing process whereby the raw material called curious boys is turned into products called obedient men.

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you've already become part of the system. It's how it works.

She's an honor student. She's always saying "Yes Your Honor. No Your Honor."

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Umpires are like emotional girlfriends, once they make up their minds, there is no point in arguing

The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.