Quotes About Authority

Much of history revolves around this question: how does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, or limited liability companies? Yet

Then the algorithm will know best, the algorithm will always be right, and beauty will be in the calculations of the algorithm.

is there anything more dangerous than a god who doesn't know what he wants?

commandment is to link everything to the system, including heretics who don't want to be plugged

Once Google, Facebook and other algorithms become all-knowing oracles, they may well evolve into agents and ultimately into sovereigns

Finns det något farligare än missnöjda och oansvariga gudar som inte riktigt vet vad de vill?

Even Russia nowadays pretends to be a democracy. Victory

Officials kept writing scrolls, collecting taxes, sending orders and oiling the gears of the pharaonic machine.

Dayananda's contemporary, Pope Pius IX, had much more conservative views about women, but shared Dayananda's admiration for superhuman authority. Pius led a series of reforms in Catholic dogma and established the novel principle of papal infallibility, according to which the Pope can never err in matters of faith (this seemingly medieval idea became binding Catholic dogma only in 1870, eleven years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species).

Really powerful human organisations – such as pharaonic Egypt, communist China, the European empires and the modern school system – are not necessarily clear-sighted. Much of their power rests on their ability to force their fictional beliefs on a submissive reality.

Youngsters are increasingly excused from obeying their elders, whereas parents are blamed for anything that goes wrong in the life of their child.

More and more people believe that all of humankind is the legitimate source of political authority, rather than the members of a particular nationality, and that safeguarding human rights and protecting the interests of the entire human species should be the guiding light of politics.

And tear him to pieces, like a mortal! Let him shoot down all the gods from the sky!

Anyone who volunteers themselves as an authority on the subject of the Internet is an asshole. Don't listen to a word they say.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

Islam has no religious establishment -- no popes, no bishops -- that can declare by fiat which is the correct interpretation. As a result, the decision to oppose the state on the grounds that is insufficiently Islamic belongs to anyone who wishes to exercise it.

It's really difficult to have your voice heard and feared when you both speak softly and carry a twig.

Claiming all power for the purpose of prosperity and justice in society is conflicting to its own cause, rather authorizing individual authority is the just way toward a better society, because each individual has the right to decide about himself, and for collective decision making in society, all individual has the right to provide their input in it, after that majorities' rule and minorities' rights is the key to move forward, otherwise its destruction of society.

Democracy is good for you when you are not in power and worst when you are in power and that's why it is best form of government.

The problem isn't not only with what's right and wrong but the problem is with who decides about what's right and wrong.

The sole means of ridding man of crime is to rid him of freedom.

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

W gimnazjum panowaÅ' kult rozumu, ale, jak wiadomo, nic bardziej nie wpÅ'ywa na rozwój okultyzmu ni? urzÄ™dowy racjonalizm.