Quotes About Authority

They have no room to maneuver because that's the way their superiors grow fat. If you don't see the difference between regulation and law, both have the force of law.

One of the hardest things for a tyrant to find is people who actually make decisions.

Never follow a leader without asking your own questions.

Bureaucracy elevates conformity, make that 'elevates fatal stupidity', to the status of religion.

Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.

Bons súditos devem sentir culpa. A culpa começa como uma sensação de fracasso. O bom autocrata fornece muitas oportunidades de fracasso para o seu povo.

Ja! Y pensaba que ibas a decirme algo nuevo. Eso ya lo sabemos: «El poder corrompe. El poder absoluto corrompe absolutamente.» —Falso, Dama. Algo más sutil pero mucho más penetrante: El poder atrae a lo corruptible.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? -Bene Gesserit Council Proceedings: Archives #XOX232

Arrakis has it's own way determining who wears the mantle of authority,' Kynes said.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful

heroic leaders often made mistakes . . . mistakes that were amplified by the number of followers who were held in thrall by charisma.

Do as she says, you wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd! Do it or I'll help her dismember you! Can't you see the worth of this woman?

He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.

Control the coinage and the courts – let the rabble have the rest." Thus the Padishah Emperor advised you. And he tells you: "If you want profits, you must rule." There is truth in these words, but I ask myself: "Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

The people who can destroy a thing, they control it," Paul

Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said.

Conduc?torul trebuie s? menÈ›in? nivelul indivizilor. Prea puÈ›ini indivizi... È™i un popor degenereaz? în gloat?.

Command must always look confident, he thought. All that faith riding on your shoulders while you sit in the critical seat and never show it.

O ponto de vista dos céticos. E os soberanos são sabidamente céticos no que toca a religião. A religião também é uma arma. E que tipo de arma seria a religião quando elas se tornam o governo?

Legile cer întotdeauna s? fie interpretate. Cel care se priponeÈ™te de lege nu vrea s? lase nicio È™ans? compasiunii. Nicio marj? de manevr?. "Legea e lege!

I assure you from a God's Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies.

Todas las rebeliones son corrientes y extremadamente aburridas. Todas están copiadas del mismo modelo, y todas se parecen la una a la otra. Su fuerza motriz es la adicción a la adrenalina y el deseo de adquirir poder personal. Todos los rebeldes son pequeños aristócratas.

Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish safeguards in the Constitution.

Power attracts the psychotics. Always.