Quotes About Authority

From night problems we learned one lasting lesson: when a map and a compass come into contact with a second lieutenant, prepare yourself for confusion. Throughout

much flak if I made you a general at your age.

Let there be light!" said God, and there was light! "Let there be blood!" says man, and there's a sea! —Lord Byron, Don Juan

Police, you under arrest!

Let there be light! said God, and there was light! Let there be blood! says man, and there's a sea!

One peep out of you, and I'll use you for a U-bend under my bathroom sink, holes or no holes, savvy?

Organized crime?" I blinked. "It's like government, kid, " Aahz supplied. "Only more effective.

believed it was better to assume the burden of leadership than to drift along in the shadows.

Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.

Be very careful what you recommend to the president because he will do what you say.

I bet you've seen the fundamentalist bumper sticker that says, "God said it! I believe it! That settles it!" It must be a typo because what the driver really means is, "I said it! God believes it! That settles it!

To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.

Although Dr. Levinson had spoken with a touch of hyperbole, Slater soon discovered that she'd meant what she said. He was instructed to draw up a game plan and risk assessment, a preliminary budget (though Dr. Levinson had made it clear on his way out that cost was to be no object), put together a team of whatever specialists he would require, and have it all on her desk in seventy-two hours.

The storm to end all storms is coming," he had said, "and the only question is going to be who wields the lightning and the thunder." Oppenheimer had always been prone to such melodramatic language. "It has to be us.

Politics is the name we give to the orchestration of power in any society.

When a society cannot ridicule and criticize its institutions, it cannot laugh. The shortest book ever written would be the history of German humor, a culture that has suffered spells of paralyzing fear of authority. Comedy is at heart an angry, antisocial art. To solve the problem of weak comedy, therefore, the writer first asks: What am I angry about? He finds that aspect of society that heats his blood and goes on an assault.

Without that knowledge, the world pushes you around.

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost." ? Vladimir Ilich Lenin

The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts

He is a king whom emperors have served.

When the power inherent in a position of authority is used to fortify that position, the institution's purpose is subverted. Behaviors are not aligned with the institution';s professed goals; rather they are skewed to preserve the rank, power, salaries, and security of rank-holders. -- Somebodies and Nobodies, by Robert W. Fuller

Hablando en serio: los que obedecen suelen ser una copia exacta de los que mandan.

Zeus is never ridiculous. Because his dignity is of no concern to him.

The power worship of the Promethean amounts to a travesty of the enhancement of life.