Quotes About Authority

When senior officers are angry and insubordinate, and on encountering the enemy rush into battle with no understanding of the feasibility of engaging and without awaiting orders from the commander, the army is in a state of collapse.

Jsou pÃ…â"¢íkazy vládce, které nepÃ…â"¢ijmeÅ¡.

Every commander is aware of this five fundamental determinants: the path, the heaven, the earth, the leadership and discipline

To command many is equal as to command few; it's the question of divide.

a skilful general given free rein by the ruler, brings victory.

I was born a heretic. I always distrusted people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

All my life I've been well behaved, she said. It's about time I got to push people around and not apologize.

Sometimes the rues don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

To the farmers the new tax was an example of another oppressor telling them what to do and then charging them for it.

The dangers of one-man rule—of a president who would seek to "perpetuate himself in office"—could be realized, he wrote, only in "the last stage of corrupted morals and political depravity." And at that grim point, term limits would be of no consequence.

Our culture and our religions are almost unanimous in upholding the omnipotence of parental authority.

If their children misbehave, they'll take away privileges, but they won't assault their dignity or value.

Punishers don't see themselves as punishing, but rather as maintaining order or keeping a firm hand on things or doing "what's right" or letting us know they can't be pushed around. They see themselves as strong and in charge. If their behavior hurts us, so be it. The end justifies the means.

Money has always been the primary language of power.

What makes a controlling parent so insidious is that the domination usually comes in the guise of concern.

For hundreds of years, parental rights were considered inviolate—in the name of discipline, parents could do just about anything to their children, short of killing them.

Servitude is not easy. Obedience is not a one-time decision. Obedience is alife time discipline. But it does bring a cimplicty to life because it settles the issue of who is in control.

Because his mother never met a boundary she didn't want to cross.

Hard position when you don't want to be a dictator but you want your own way," Eleanor wrote Hick.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

True that Benjamin used a communist language in the last years of his life, so he looks different to us now. But that's because he died in 1940. Those last years were the ones in which communist language regained authority--seen as necessary to fight fascism (identified as The Enemy). Had Benjamin lived as long as Adorno he would have become as a-social, as disillusioned with left as Adorno did.

BEAUTY. The visionary authority of Childs's work resides, in part, in its lack of rhetoric. Her strict avoidance of cliché, and of anything that would make the work disjunctive, fragmented. The refusal of humor, self-mockery, flirtation with the audience, cult of personality. The distaste for the exhibitionistic: movement calling attention to itself, isolatable "effects." Beauty as, first of all, an art of refusal.

The Queen had real power, and a woman in power, feared as virile, is often accused of being a slut.