Quotes About Authority

Plus, there is the dynamic that when I run for president I'm going to be the boss, and I'm not sure Bill will be able to handle that. He says he'll be my adviser and loving husband, but I'm afraid that if I'm elected, he'll think he's president again and I'm first lady. If he starts that shit, I'll have his ass thrown out of the White House.

There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.

It is a sort of managerial aristocracy that quietly determines what we buy and how we vote and what we deem as good or bad. "They govern us," the author writes, "by their qualities of natural leadership, their ability to supply needed ideas and by their key position in the social structure.

If the democratically backed will of the world's largest trading bloc can be undone by a group of unelected trade judges, imagine the odds for anyone else.

Orwell's fear was that Big Brother would always be watching you. Huxley's dread was that we would be too busy watching Big Brother on TV to care. There is no need to ban books if people are not reading them. If the people are entertained, they will also be docile.

Brecht once said: 'All power comes from the people. But where does it go?

M + D = C, Monopoly plus Discretion equals Corruption

All children do better when they know who is in charge. Knowing that they are not gives them a sense of security and order. The same goes for adults, to a certain extent—having a clear chain of command at work, for instance, is both orienting and especially helpful to the employee with ADHD.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

States, the final step up in the cultural evolution of societies, have a centralized authority.

Most crimes and misdemeanors by slaves were dealt with by their masters; they could even hang a slave if he killed another slave, but that would have been like throwing money down a well after the slave had already thrown the first load of money down, as William Robbins once told Skiffington.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves." - Edward R. Murrow

Orientalism… a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.

All republics that acquire supremacy over other nations, rule them selfishly and oppressively. There is no exception to this in either ancient or modern times. Carthage, Rome, Venice, Genoa, Florence, Pisa, Holland, and Republican France, all tyrannized over every province and subject state where they gained authority.

Human rulers get poisoned or decapitated or simply voted out of office all the time, as our set of personal desires, our chimpanzee DNA, rears its individualistic head.

Anything that erodes the fear of God will intensify the fear of man.

Here is the situation of Man: the more power he claims for himself, the less power he has.

most general officers never had a headache but they did invariably suffer from constant indigestion, a result of their inability to expel the gases that accumulated in them in the course of a day spent agreeing with everything their superiors said.

Poet and kings are but the clerks of Time.

I'm not just an elected official of the city; I'm a tribal chieftain as well.

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My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me.