Quotes About Authority

We've built a way of life that depends on people doing what they are told because they don't know how to tell themselves what to do.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers. Surely this is one of the most radical acts in human history, not the least of its breathtakingly radical assertions being that you must attend for your own good!

School is a perfect place to turn science into religion, but it's the wrong place to learn science, for sure.

When fundamental rights depend on someone's whim, you really have no rights, only privileges that may be withdrawn at any minute.

Avrupa'da diktatörlerin güç kullan?p zorlayarak yapmaya çal??t?klar?n? eÄŸitim yoluyla baÅŸarmak.

Massified populations cannot exercise self-control very well since they depend on constant oversight to behave as required. When external controls are removed, anything becomes possible.

Take a second to think about these utopian algorithms — dividing people from one another and from their natural allies, is right at the head of the list, but all require wiping the slate as clean of close emotional ties — even ties to yourself! — as possible. Family, deep friendships, church, culture, tradition, anything which might contradict the voice of authority, is suspect.

Construímos uma estilo de vida que depende de que as pessoas continuem fazendo o que lhes mandam fazer por não saberem como dizer a si mesmas o que deve ser feito.

A lição dos boletins, notas e provas é a de que as crianças não devem confiar em si mesmas ou em seus pais, mas, em vez disso, deveriam confiar na avaliação de autoridades credenciadas. É necessário que se diga às pessoas o valor que têm.

As escolas ensinam exatamente o que se pretende que ensinem, e fazem isso muito bem: como ser um bom egípcio e permanecer no seu lugar da pirâmide.

Trapped children, like trapped rats, need close management.

Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

The lesson of report cards, grades, and tests is that children should not trust themselves or their parents but should instead rely on the evaluation of certified officials. People need to be told what they are worth.

School is about learning to wait your turn, however long it takes to come, if ever. And how to submit with a show of enthusiasm to the judgment of strangers, even if they are wrong, even if your enthusiasm is phony.

Schools teach exactly what they are intended to teach and they do it well: how to be a good Egyptian and remain in your place in the pyramid.

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

You don´t need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're beeing watched. (...) Punishment isn't necessary, but the inevitability of punishment has to be programmed into the brain.

Thomas Slater says that modern authority is based on a system of lies that are accepted by the general population. If you pull away the curtain and show the reality of power, people are motivated to question the fictions that govern their own lives.

Never bow to the wicked. Never obey the command of someone who is unworthy.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

the more bureaucrats there are, the more laws are needed to keep them fed. I