Quotes About Authority

Power operates in relation to others.

El poder es la capacidad de dirigir o impedir las acciones actuales o futuras de otros grupos e individuos. O, dicho de otra forma, el poder es aquello con lo que logramos que otros tengan conductas que, de otro modo, no habrían adoptado.

Cuando está demasiado concentrado, el poder engendra tiranía.

Las respuestas a mis preguntas siempre han ido en la misma dirección: el poder es cada vez más débil, más transitorio, más limitado.

toda empresa grande debe tener acceso e influencia con el gobierno, independientemente de quién esté a cargo del mismo.

Power is the ability to direct or prevent the current or future actions of other groups and individuals. Or, put differently, power is what we exercise over others that leads them to behave in ways they would not otherwise have behaved.

Concentración: controlar los organismos del Estado que limitan el poder del presidente,

Necesitas neutralizarlos por completo y por todos los medios posibles. —Hegemonía total. El presidente toma nota de ése y de otros tantos sabios consejos—

Un líder verdadero no consulta, ordena.

is how each of them is making power easier to get and harder to use or keep.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

CLEANTE. Spoke like a true young man. Now just calm down, And moderate your towering tantrums, will you? We live in such an age, with such a king, That violence can not advance our cause.

Do you think we've got control of everything here, because this place is small and simple and we're in charge of it? It's so obvious we're in control, I guess we may have forgotten we're not in control. And I wonder if those people on the Earth, because it was so clear they weren't in control, forgot that they were.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Exhausted, bored, and disgusted by nannies, she engaged a governess who would begin my education and at the same time keep an eye on the nursery maid who was to be in charge of Hubert's more menial four-year-old necessities.

The knowledge of the little child's mental development has to become widely diffused, for only then will education be able to speak with a new voice, and say to the world with authority: "The laws of life are such and such. They can not be ignored. You must act in conformity with them, for they proclaim the rights of man which are universal and common to all.

Bring out... The Comfy Chair!!!!

I am not a f**king pleasure girl, damn you! I'm an officer!

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men's souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

Create your own universe and bring everything into your own sphere

At Bologna, the students held control of their university, hired and fired professors, fined them for unexcused absences or lateness, for wandering from their subject, and for dodging difficult questions.

The High Middle Ages resounded with conflicts between the popes and the emperors and other temporal rulers.

The human spirit inclines readily toward heresy, arguing against imposed doctrine and challenging the institution that prescribes it.

The leader gives me another hard stare. He's not very old, but he's going bald. His wispy pale hair looks like it's trying to get as far away as it can from his angry face.