Quotes About Authority

Y he aquí que el progreso de la tecnología ha llevado y sigue llevando todavía a esa concentración y centralización del poder.

Um Estado totalitário verdadeiramente eficiente seria aquele em que os chefes políticos de um Poder Executivo todo-poderoso e seu exército de administradores controlassem uma população de escravos que não tivessem de ser coagidos porque amariam sua servidão.

Um Estado totalitário verdadeiramente eficiente seria aquele em que os chefes políticos de um Poder Executivo todo-poderoso e seu exército de administradores controlassem uma população de escravos que não tivessem de ser coagidos porque amariam sua servidão. Fazer com que eles a amem é a tarefa confiada, nos Estados totalitários de hoje, aos ministérios de propaganda, diretores de jornais e professores.

A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude

In all dictatorial propaganda, silence is at least as important as speech.

Los dioses son justos, sin duda, pero su código legal es dictado, en última instancia, por las personas que organizan la sociedad. La Providencia recibe órdenes de los hombres.

quit custodiet custodes - ¿quién montará la guardia a nuestros guardianes?

Los déspotas siempre juzgaron necesario complementar la fuerza con la propaganda política o religiosa. En este sentido, la pluma es más poderosa que la espada. Pero la píldora es más poderosa que la pluma o la espada.

My good boy!" The Director wheeled sharply round on him. "Can't you see? Can't you see?" He raised a hand; his expression was solemn. "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!" Major instruments of social stability.

I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good-good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

RzÄ…dzenie to sprawa stoÅ'ka, nie koÅ'ka. RzÄ…dzi siÄ™ przy pomocy mózgu i poÅ›ladków, nie pi??ci. - Aldous Huxley Nowy, wspaniaÅ'y Å›wiat

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying. ---(From the pamphlet: The Scientific Solution of the Problem of Government.)

In brief, we govern by a mixture of lying and bullying.

Let my servants be few & secret: they shall rule the many & the known.

I find that I was wrong in suggesting that a Master of the Temple had a right to enter the temple of a Magus or an Ipsissimus. On the contrary, the rule that holds below, holds also above. The higher you go, the greater is the distance from one grade to another.

He knew that he was hated, abhorred by the mass of the people, and this knowledge made him react against the external world, and at the same time increased the satisfaction and pleasure he found in the servility, solicitude, and adulation of his dependents, who had consolidated his interests and prosperity and extended to the utmost a sovereignty quite unsupported by legality and constitution.

The wish of a beautiful woman is a law for the rest of the world.

Novecento, tutto questo è assolutamente contrario al regolamento. Novecento smise di suonare. Era un ragazzino di poche parole e di grande capacità di apprendimento. Guardò con dolcezza il comandante e disse: In culo il regolamento.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Man does not steal, he conquers

Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.

la mayoría de personas disfrutaba de seguir al líder. Les liberaba de la obligación de pensar por sí mismos.

Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.