Quotes About Authority

În situaÈ›ii de criz?, oamenii înfricoÈ™aÈ›i se supuneau oricui p?rea s? È™tie ce face.

el mayor problema del comunismo era que el poder absoluto del partido siempre sofocaba el cambio.

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A transfer of power from one faction to another faction within the same class is called a coup, and this changes nothing. A transfer of power from one class to another is called a revolution, and this does change things.

passages proved the correctness of Protestant teaching.

If earls' daughters were allowed to marry whom they please, we'd all be ruled by strolling minstrels and dark-eyed outlaws." "The

When there is fighting in the streets, they can claim that public order has broken down, and drastic measures are needed to restore the rule of law.

Many of the men in authority in the Soviet Union were careless, lazy, drunk, and just plain stupid. They misunderstood their instructions, they forgot, they approached challenging tasks halfheartedly and then gave up, and sometimes they just decided they knew better. Reasoning with them was useless; charm was worse. Being nice to them made them think you were a fool who could be ignored.

si debes cien dólares, el banco te tiene en su poder; pero si debes un millón, eres tú quien tienes en tu poder al banco.

No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

But, gee, the other nurse says, what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive...? You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.

If somebody'd of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they'd of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons.

They're out there. First line of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Papa says if you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

They're out there...One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Mr. McMurphy... my friend... I'm not a chicken, I'm a rabbit. The doctor is a rabbit. Cheswick there is a rabbit. Billy Bibbit is a rabbit. All of us in here are rabbits of varying ages and degrees, hippity-hopping through our Walt Disney world. Oh, don't misunderstand me, we're not in here because we are rabbits?we'd be rabbits wherever we were?we're all in here because we can't adjust to our rabbithood. We need a good strong wolf like the nurse to teach us our place.

Ratched shall line us all against the wall, where we'll face the terrible maw of a muzzle-loading shotgun which she has loaded with Miltowns! Thorazines! Libriums! Stelazines! And with a wave of her sword, blooie! Tranquilize all of us completely out of existence.

Randle McMurphy) Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power.

Soha meg nem fordultak a fejemben a lelki betegség hatalmi vonatkozásai. Gondold csak meg: minél Å'rültebb az ember, annál nagyobb lehet a hatalma. Vedd Hitlert. Tébolyban az erÅ'.

We are victims of a matriarchy here, my friend, and the doctor is just as helpless against it as we are.

Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it? Food for thought there.

Tata zicea ca, daca nu iei seama, oamenii te silesc, intr-un fel sau altul, sa faci ce socotesc ei ca trebuie sa faci, ori sa te indaratnicesti ca un catar si sa faci toate pe dos, in ciuda lor.

But, oh Viv, right doesn't make might.

Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become.