Quotes About Authority

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdetermined. -- Making Magic , p. 23

People would question anything having to do with God, but they wouldn't question their own questions. They would challenge the authority of a theologian, but they wouldn't challenge the authority of their buddy who claimed he had read a book that disproved the Bible.

I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

If you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable !

Going to school on the Planet really is doing nothing. You just sit in the classes someone else tells you to sit in. You learn things you didn't choose to learn from people you didn't choose to teach you. Then one day they tell you it's over and you have to go out there and learn the world for real.

People used to making decisions sometimes like it when they're told what to do.

Filmy style is used by Govt to snub the voice of dissentors. Send own Goondas in the midst of villages to pelt stone on protestors and to make them clash and bootlicking media covers the picture through camera in such a way that it misguide viewers

Hooligans under the attire of security personnel shed tear gas and do lathi charge on the ordinary protesters, but as usual the top farmers leaders escape unhurt.

greater authority.

Those whom Power can neither govern nor kill, it taxes with madness.

Henceforward, no revolution will be worth the name if it does not at the very least imply the radical elimination of all hierarchy.

Those who organize the world organize both suffering and the pain-killers for dealing with it;

Religious beliefs concealed humans from themselves, a Bastille walling them up in a pyramidal world with God at the summit and the king just below. Alas,

The bourgeoisie does not dominate, it exploits. It does not need to be master, it prefers to use. Why has nobody seen that the principle of productivity simply replaced the principle of feudal authority? Why has nobody wanted to understand?

Consider the games that get all the attention lately: shooters,* fighting games,* and war games. They are not subtle about their love of power. The gap between these games and cops and robbers is small as far as the players are

There is a movement in babylon to:- gangjagriculturalize- ras spiritual herb. I will tell you more about this term I coined to show what they will do to rasta and the herb in years to come. I am ras cardo who created reggae. I am-R.H.A.T.I.D- reggae highest authority truthfully informing the diaspora. This is prophecy. I have also told you about-R.A.S.P.E.C.T1.

In the words of one scholar, "by virtue of Israel's definition of itself as a Jewish state and the state's exclusionary policies and laws, what was conferred on Palestinians was in effect second-class citizenship." Most significantly, the martial regime under which the Palestinians lived granted the Israeli military near-unlimited authority to control the minutiae of their lives.57

It was a dialogue of the deaf. The British refused to recognize the representative authority of the congresses or its leaders, and insisted on Arab acceptance of the Balfour Declaration and the terms of the Mandate that had succeeded it—the antithesis of every substantive Arab demand—as a precondition for discussion.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquence.

Nowadays they say you need to get a special chip to put in the TV so kids can't watch this and that. In my day, we didn't need a chip. My mom was the chip. End of story.

Even within the rigid structure of the military, common soldiers exercised more power than usual. They elected their own noncommissioned officers. Often, they refused to obey orders; occasionally, they mutinied. They deserted almost at will. More so than in most wars, they challenged or ignored traditional lines of command: try as he might, George Washington was never able to force his men to kick women camp followers out of the wagons.

If they sided with the king, they did so from defiant self-interest, not humble submission. Perhaps Jury Wheeler expressed the mood best when he pronounced that if he were forced to carry arms in the rebel army, his first target would be his captain.

General Montgomery noted that the soldiers in his charge "carry the spirit of freedom into the field, and think for themselves," and that they even "felt it necessary to call a sort of town meeting" to plan any maneuvers. They demonstrated such a "leveling spirit, such an equality among them, that the officers have no authority," Montgomery reported. "The privates are all generals.