Quotes About Authority

Cuando religión y política viajan en el mismo carro, los viajeros piensan que nada podrá detenerles en su camino... Su movimiento es acelerado… rápido y más rápido. Dejan a un lado todos los obstáculos, y no piensan que un precipicio se descubre siempre demasiado tarde.

Ä°yi yönetimler hiçbir zaman kanunlara dayanmaz, yönetenlerin kiÅŸisel niteliklerine dayan?r. Yönetim mekanizmas? daima bu mekanizmay? idare edenlerin isteÄŸine baÄŸl?d?r. Bu yüzden, yönetimin en önemli unsuru, liderleri seçme yöntemidir.

I must rule with eye and claw—as the hawk among lesser birds.

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodiet?

The plodding, self-important language of government enraged him.

Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All else is nonsense, as most thinking beings come to realize.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. —WORDS OF AN ANCIENT PHILOSOPHER (ATTRIBUTED BY HARQ AL-ADA TO ONE LOUIS VEUILLOT)

When I'm stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

He hates his God Emperor! No . . . he fears him. But don't we always hate what we fear?

The people who can destroy a thing, they control it

Muad'Dib: "If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God? —MUAD'DIB, FROM THE ORAL HISTORY

Specialists are not to be trusted," Leto said. "Specialists are masters of exclusion, experts in the narrow.

All governments needed to remain under suspicion in their time of power.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

Quando io sono più debole di te, ti chiedo la libertà perché ciò è in accordo con i tuoi princìpi. Quando sono più forte di te, io ti tolgo la libertà perché ciò è in accordo con i miei princìpi. Parole di un antico filosofo (attribuite da Harq al-Ada a un certo Louis Veuillot)

Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts. The guilt of rebellion invoked hellfire and self-righteous judgments.

O civilizaÈ›ie se întemeiaz?, în cea mai mare parte, pe laÈ™itate. Este atât de uÈ™or s? civilizezi propov?duind laÈ™itatea. Diluezi factorii care ar putea încuraja cutezanÈ›a. Limitezi exercitarea voinÈ›ei. Egalizezi apetiturile. Îngr?deÈ™ti orizonturile. Decretezi o lege pentru fiecare miÈ™care. Negi existenÈ›a haosului. Îi înveÈ›i pân? È™i pe copii s? respire domol. ÎmblânzeÈ™ti.

All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power

Hydraulic despotism: central control of an essential energy such as water, electricity, fuel, medicines, melange. . . Obey the central controlling power or the energy is shut off and you die!

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him…once…long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject." The Fremen

Power attracts the corruptible.