Quotes About Authority

it is when thus relieved from the state of tension belonging to actual study that boys and girls, as well as men and women, acquire the habit of thought and reflection, and of forming their own conclusions, independently of what they are taught and the authority of others.

when the law is applied in the absence of legitimacy, it does not produce obedience. It produces the opposite. It leads to backlash.

any attempt to downplay or sugarcoat the meaning of what is being said. We mitigate when we're being polite, or when we're ashamed or embarrassed, or when we're being deferential to authority. If you want your boss to do you a favor, you

force without legitimacy leads to defiance, not submission.

Am I a dog that you should come to me with sticks?

What they did is not "right," just as it is not "right" to send children up against police dogs. But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside. David has nothing to lose, and because he has nothing to lose, he has the freedom to thumb his nose at the rules set by others.

Our liberties are imperiled by overly competent beaurocrats.

that power has an important limitation. It has to be seen as legitimate, or else its use has the opposite of its intended effect.

Even in his discussion of Harvard, it's as if Langan has no conception of the culture and particulars of the institution he's talking about. When you accept a paycheck from these people, it is going to come down to what you want to do and what you feel is right versus what the man says you can do to receive another paycheck. What?

The powerful are not as powerful as they seem—nor the weak as weak.

Come to me, that I may give your flesh to the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field

Look at how easily Alex interrupts the doctor—I'm not ten. That's entitlement: his mother permits that casual incivility because she wants him to learn to assert himself with people in positions of authority.

We often think of authority as a response to disobedience: a child acts up, so a teacher cracks down. Stella's classroom, however, suggests something quite different: disobedience can also be a response to authority. If the teacher doesn't do her job properly, then the child will become disobedient. "With

This is the first of the ideas to keep in mind when considering the death of Sandra Bland. We think we want our guardians to be alert to every suspicion. We blame them when they default to truth. When we try to send people like Graham Spanier to jail, we send a message to all of those in positions of authority about the way we want them to make sense of strangers—without stopping to consider the consequences of sending that message.

Religious enthusiasm among students is now an embarrassment; belief in the authority of the Bible and the deity of Jesus Christ is treated as naivety to be enlightened rather than life to be nourished. Scholars in the arts, letters, and sciences who show signs of Christian devotion are likely to be shrugged off as simplistic and eccentric.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.

Break the rules not because you don't know better, but because you know them too well

Tyrants don't become a success.They become obsessed!

Whoever is under a man's power is under his protection, too.

This is my time, I don't own anyone but every one wants to get owned by me

You become the master of what you master.

Clarity enables Empowerment

Height is not might.