Quotes About Authority

Someone whose only reason for not acting in an antisocial way was that they were scared of getting in trouble with God . . . where did you even start with such a person?

You have a lot of time, you don't need to be in a hurry." That's what the deans said, when you tried to take five classes. Easy for them: they were already deans. Either that was something they wanted to be doing, in which case they could afford to relax; or it wasn't what they had wanted to be doing, and now they were invested in preventing anyone else from accomplishing anything, either.

Svetlana said that when she was in the first grade, kids would torture each other in the playground by asking, "Who do you love more, Comrade Tito or your own mother?

Officialdom needs to put you in a categorizing box, and if it cannot then it is free to make its own verdict upon your status

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralize them.

If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: "What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?" If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

.. Ideas are more powerful than guns.

Those with established power always see change as a threat to their position.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

Note that an informed source need not fit our general stereotype of an "authority"—and a person who fits our stereotype of an authority may not even be an informed source.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten."

expect me to stand here?" the maid asked in a low hiss. "I'm sorry, Bridget,

Although you may tell lies, people will believe you, if only you speak with authority.

The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it cant return even if it wants to.

Da rabia cuando te construyen caminos, lo único que consiguen es que quieras rebelarte contra ellos, ¿verdad?

However fiercely opposed one may be to the present order, an old respect for the idea of order itself often prevents people from distinguishing between order and those who stand for order, and leads them in practise to respect individuals under the pretext of respecting order itself.

As Justinian's Digest put it: A verbis legis non est recedendum1 ("Do not depart from the words of the law").

Second, the purpose must be defined precisely, and not in a fashion that smuggles in the answer to the question before the decision-maker.

En ningún otro campo profesional se puede llegar más lejos careciendo de cualquier cualificación, conocimiento o habilidad verificable. Se puede dirigir un hospital y hasta ser ministro de sanidad sin tener la menor noción de medicina, y ocupar un puesto de alto rango en la política internacional sin hablar ningún idioma extranjero.

Why do you accept being treated like an inmate?

This book is like a supreme car which can drive the world to a new horizon. N.DAS Humans declared themselves masters of their own lives,producers of cities and history,and inventor of heaven.Antonio Negri[EMPIRE]

we're a southern people, Pereira, and we obey whoever shouts the loudest and gives the orders.

Nosotros siempre hemos tenido necesidad de un jefe, todavía hoy necesitamos un jefe.