Quotes About Authority

Everybody wants power. Power in some form or other. [...] Some people want power to persecute other human beings; you expend your lust for power in persecuting words, twisting them, molding them, torturing them to obey you.

Bernard gave his orders in the sharp, rather arrogant and even offensive tone of one who does not feel himself too secure in his superiority.

Un estado totalitario realmente eficaz sería aquel en el cual los jefes políticos todopoderosos y su ejército de colaboradores pudieran gobernar una población de esclavos sobre los cuales no fuese necesario ejercer coerción alguna por cuanto amarían su servidumbre. Inducirles a amarla es la tarea asignada en los actuales estados totalitarios a los ministerios de propaganda, los directores de los periódicos y los maestros de escuela.

VÄ›cí vlády je zasedat, nikoli mlátit. Vládne se hlavou a zadkem, nikoli pÄ›stí.

Reformers should aim at delivering men from the temptations of sloth no less than from the temptations of ambition, avarice and the lust for power and position. Conversely, no reform which leaves the masses of the people wallowing in the slothful irresponsibility of passive obedience to authority can be counted as genuine change for the better.

Thanks to technological progress, Big Brother can now be almost as omnipresent as God.

Stability," insisted the Controller, "stability. The primal and the ultimate need. Stability. Hence all this.

Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many.

In the Brave New World of my prophetic fable technology had advanced far beyond the point it had reached in Hitler's day; consequently the recipients of orders were far less critical than their Nazi counterparts, far more obedient to the order-giving elite.

liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.

the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

The really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power.

DziÄ™ki ci, Fordzie! Nie byÅ' ostatni. Trzy spoÅ›ród dwunastu ustawionych wokóÅ' okrÄ…gÅ'ego stoÅ'u krzeseÅ' byÅ'y jeszcze nie zajÄ™te. WÅ›liznÄ…Å' siÄ™ na najbli?sze z nich w miarÄ™ niepostrze?enie i oto ju? gotów byÅ' marszczy? brwi na widok wchodzÄ…cych spó?nialskich. - Bernard Marks, Nowy wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat Aldous Huxley

Are you sure?" asked the Savage. "Are you quite sure that the Edmund in that pneumatic chair hasn't been just as heavily punished as the Edmund who's wounded and bleeding to death?

Accompanied by a campaign against the Past; by the closing of museums, the blowing up of historical monuments (luckily most of them had already been destroyed during the Nine Years' War); by the suppression of all books published before A.F. 150.

Infant-conditioning and narco-hypnosis are far more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.

Words are the most powerful of weapons if you use them properly - they'll cut through anything. But what's the good of that if the things you write about have no power in them?

Rozumie pan, to jest zakazane. Poniewa? jednak ja tutaj ustanawiam prawa, wi?c i ja mog? je ?ama?. Bezkarnie, panie Marks - doda? zwracaj?c si? do Bernarda - Czego pan, obawiam si?, nie mo?e czyni?. - Mustafa Mond, Nowy Wspania?y ?wiat

In the latter half of the twentieth century, two visionary books cast their shadows over our futures. One was George Orwell's 1949 novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, with its horrific vision of a brutal, mind-controlling totalitarian

Ben keyif aram?yorum, Tanr?'y? istiyorum,ÅŸiir istiyorum,gerçek tehlike istiyorum,özgürlük istiyorum,iyilik istiyorum. Günah istiyorum. Asl?nda, dedi Mustafa Mond, siz mutsuz olma hakk?n? istiyorsunuz.

if you want to preserve your power indefinitely you have to get the consent of the ruled, and this they will do partly by drugs ... partly by these new techniques of propaganda, they will do it by ... bypassing the rational side of man and appealing to his subconscious and his deeper emotions ... and so making him actually love his slavery.

The sound-track roll was unwinding itself in Synthetic Anti-Riot Speech Number Two

From their earliest years, as soon, that is, as the examining psychologists have assigned them their place in the classified scheme, the Men of Faith will have had their special education under the eye of the Intelligences. Moulded by a long process of suggestion, they will go out into the world, preaching and practising with a generous mania the coldly reasonable projects of the Directors from above.

The exercise of authority restored her confidence, made her feel better.