Quotes About Authority

To be a '"free lord" in secret is better than being a public slave

Besatzungszonen unter Kontrolle zu bekommen,

the group needs to readily accept the choices and the direction of the dominant members.

In other words, I like control. Not just being in control, but the awareness of control, the feel of control, and the ability to manipulate control itself.

Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.

visibility increases your credibility.

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No authority is higher than reality.

The long arm of the law ends in the pimp hand of justice.

a precept that it is a Divine Commandment to obey Germans

Great massacres may be commanded by tyrants but they are imposed by peoples. Without general social support, the organs of isolation and expulsion cannot even be created.

after watching Hitler return from Munich in the evening of 30 June: 'Depend on it, it is precisely this Hitler going on his way over heaps of bodies, whom they [the generals] have yearned for in their deepest heart of hearts.'83

Politics is a matter of leading other people. Admittedly not where they want to go, but where they ought to go.

It was the prerogative of the powerful to betray their servants. You played their game or you played your own. The end was the same.

Beyond a certain threshold, power erases embarrassment

Oh, Maureen. Don't be so naive. Everybody knows what it's like these days. The authorities bend over backward to help immigrants. You ought to know that, being in nursing. It's all opportunities for ethnics, not for decent, hardworking white folks.

They want you to like it," Father says. "This way they can know where you are at all times.

His power is accessible.

Asking government to report inflation is like asking mafia to report on crime.

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to the gold standard of what things themselves communicate. Where randomness is disabled, authority should shine forth.

Os colarinhos-brancos, os moderadores e críticos cresceram em quase toda parte à custa dos criativos e deixam-se festejar como os verdadeiros criadores.

We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet's view of the mutilated body thus has nothing to do with the previous century's Romanticism of fragments and ruins; it is part of the breakthrough in modern art to the concept of the object that states itself with authority and the body that publicizes itself with authorization.

As the activity culture of modernity constitutes itself against heteronomy, however, it will seek and find methods to place the commanding authority inside the hearer of the command themselves, so that they seem only to be obeying their inner voice when they submit. In this way, the fact of 'subjectivity' is demanded, created and fulfilled. What is meant, then, is the individual's co-determination of the authority that can give them commands.