Quotes About Authority

ÖrneÄŸin Ä°ngiliz liberalizmi devlet bürokrasisinin azalt?lmas?na deÄŸil, tam aksine yol açm??t?r; özerk bireyler aras?nda özgür sözleÅŸme ÅŸeklindeki liberal rüyay? mümkün k?lan hukuk görevlileri, sicil memurlar?, müfettiÅŸler, noterler ve polis memurlar? kadrolar?n?n durmaks?z?n ÅŸiÅŸmesine.

all imperial arrangements do, ultimately, rest on terror.

Let me explain what I mean by this. It is the peculiar feature of political life that within it, behavior that could only otherwise be considered insane is perfectly effective. If you managed to convince everyone on earth that you can breathe under water, it won't make any difference: if you try it, you will still drown. On the other hand, if you could convince everyone in the entire world that you were King of France, then you would actually be the King of France.

Political power has to be constantly recreated by persuading others to recognize one's power; to do so, one pretty much invariably has to convince them that one's power has some basis other than their recognition.

Bir "devlet" dairesinde fiilen görevli memurlar gurubu, gerekli maddi gereçler ve dosyalarla birlikte "daireyi" oluÅŸturur. Özel giriÅŸimde "daire" genellikle "ofis" diye adland?r?l?r.

In fact, the earliest word for 'freedom' recorded in any human language is the Sumerian term ama(r)-gi, which literally means 'return to mother' - because Sumerian kings would periodically issue decrees of debt freedom, cancelling all non-commercial debts and in some cases allowing those held as debt peons in their creditors' households to return home to their kin.

If 'the state' means anything, it refers to precisely the totalitarian impulse that lies behind all such claims, the desire effectively to make the ritual last forever.

Police are bureaucrats with weapons.

Efficiency' has come to mean vesting more and more power to managers, supervisors, and presumed 'efficiency experts,' so that actual producers have almost zero autonomy.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

People will accept your idea more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

he [Robert Lovett] knew that those whose names were always in print, who were always on the radio and television, were there precisely because they did not have power, that those who did hold or had access to power tried to keep out of sight. Halberstam, David; John McCain (2002-03-26). The Best and the Brightest (Modern Library) (Kindle Locations 448-449). Modern Library. Kindle Edition.

He was very good, it turned out, at outlining the flaws in the government as long as someone else was in charge of the government.

He wanted to be respectable rather than powerful; he did not want the controversy that went with power.

The men were always wary of an officer who took form more seriously than function.

Dean Rusk was a man without a shadow.

Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.

The problem with police work, he once told Ray Jenkins, was that by its nature it tended to attract a certain percentage of sadistic people, who enjoyed the job because it legitimized their natural meanness. So, he added, the first thing any good police chief had to do was set the limits for his

A legitimate government does not lose face easily, but an insecure government with little in the way of indigenous roots takes its image very seriously.

David Halberstam quoted Lyndon Johnson saying of a staffer: "I want him to kiss my ass in Macy's window at high noon and tell me it smells like roses.

People are more easily led than driven.

a button that elites can press to open the door to the masses

It's all very well to have a kind heart, but kind hearts don't rule castles.