Quotes About Authority

Discipline "makes" individuals; it is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker -judge.

We need to cut off the King´s Head: in political theory that has still to be done.

Where there is power, there is resistance.

Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

The intellectual was rejected and persecuted at the precise moment when the facts became incontrovertible, when it was forbidden to say that the emperor had no clothes.

But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.

from the bureaucratic point of view, a good citizen is a dead citizen.

The whole point of bureaucracy is to reduce the possibilities of your life to the greatest possible degree when it doesn't simply succeed in destroying them; from the bureaucratic point of view, a good citizen is a dead citizen.

Ça faisait partie des consignes officielles, de commencer par infantiliser les proches?

vamos, que el sistema del espectáculo, obligado a producir un consenso repugnante, se había venido abajo hacía mucho tiempo bajo el peso de su propia insignificancia.

Bakunin: 'Even if God existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.

Obviously they had no autonomy, but as they say in English, fuck autonomy.

Every theocracy is a denial of democracy. Even better: the smallest hint of theocracy neutralizes the very essence of democracy.

Qui regle à sa guise les code at leur circulation dans l'espace peut laisser reposer les veilleurs.

I have always imposed my wishes on the cameraman. Moreover, I have always picked them at the outset of their careers and, to a certain extent, have formed them myself.

Children raised by the I-Can't-Say-No parent often grow up too quickly, suffer from chronic boredom, think that rules don't apply to them, become poor money managers, are unable to cultivate healthy emotional boundaries with others, and have an unhealthy attachment to you in adulthood.

Pragmatic and clever, he was quite Machiavellian in his approach: "It is better to be feared than loved," he'd say. "Hide your vulnerabilities . . ." "Pick your own time and place for confrontations . . ." "Be truthful but not offensive.

Did you ever have Jennie in RE? Very bright, but so willful. She attracted a little band of kids who'd do anything she told them to." "I just remember that clash with Sparlo during her coming-of-age ceremony. What did she call him? A patriarchal oppressor?" "Racist homophobe was in there somewhere.

Liberty, not government, is the world's most powerful

Now you are no longer a giggling child, smiling at whoever comes along. You are a woman with power. Learn to control your smile, and you can control what men will think about you.

Be careful here, my lady. Let history forget your name. For if your deeds are to live in eternity, you will have to become exactly what your family wants you to be." "And what is that?" I demanded. "A slave to the throne.

Because he is weak and shallow, and you should learn to recognize men who are afraid of others with power, Mutnodjmet