Quotes About Authority

That's the problem with bureaucrats. They think everything is negotiable." The

The soviets were terrified of God. … The less a government deifies itself, the more it should be respected.

if the faithful stop believing in dogma, stop relying on the church for absolute guidance, then it is all over.

Yet ignorance seemed the greatness weakness of conformity. A select few made all the decisions, and everyone else followed, regardless that those decisions could be wrong.

The people who cast votes decide nothing. The people who count votes decide everything.

Who gives a damn what the United States Senate thinks? It lost its ability to have an opinion on this when it decided it was better than everyone else.

you can hire anybody to do anything.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.

God save me from politicians, Christians, or pagans who think they are my mother!

A true leader has the courage to represent upper management, not run it down. A true leader says we.

Unconsciously, managers without leadership habits will often seek, above all else, to be liked. Rather than holding people accountable, they let them off the hook. They give non-performers the uneasy feeling that everything's fine. They are managers who seek approval rather than respect.

You keep looking around for who's in fucking charge, and there's just nobody like that at all. The cops just ride their horses back and forth through the park, up and down Fifth Avenue. Who the hell's angry on Fifth Avenue, that's what I want to know.

There can be no moral authority to tell you what to do, for no such authority can lie outside your own will.

Forced indoctrination exacts blind and ignorant obedience.

Both scary and down-to-earth, he [John Belushi] once told me, 'I never yell at the staff, only the department heads'.

Every government on the globe was crawling up your behind to keep tabs on you like you were their puppet.

Accept Hardcore for what it was — something alienated kids created. It taught us to mistrust authority and mass media.

It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick.

Experts depend on the fact that you don't have the information they do. Or that you are so befuddled by the complexity of their operation that you wouldn't know what to do with the information if you had it. Or that you are so in awe of their expertise that you wouldn't dare challenge them.

The leader of another crack gang once told Venkatesh that he could easily afford to pay his foot soldiers more, but it wouldn't be prudent. "You got all these niggers below you who want your job, you dig?" he said. "So, you know, you try to take care of them, but you know, you also have to show them you the boss. You always have to get yours first, or else you really ain't no leader. If you start taking losses, they see you as weak and shit.

The next time you're in a real jam, facing an important question that you just can't answer, go ahead and make up something—and everyone will believe you, because you're the guy who all those other times was crazy enough to admit you didn't know the answer.

Government agents sardonically known as the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces to administer pregnancy tests. If a woman repeatedly failed to conceive, she was forced to pay a steep "celibacy tax.

or "the habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one's knowledge or competence.

cuanto más arriba en el escalafón se encuentran los trabajadores, más propensos a engañar son.