Quotes About Authority

There is a propensity for people to accept definitions of action provided by legitimate authority

Authority systems must be based on people arranged in a hierarchy. Thus the critical question in determining control is, Who is over whom? How much over is far less important than the visible presence of a ranked ordering.

is not what subjects do but for whom they are doing it that counts.

There is a certain discomfort in not knowing who the boss is, and subjects sometimes frantically sought to determine this.

we sometimes have a choice among authorities, and we ought to look at this phenomenon within the experiment. It is possible that when different authorities simultaneously call for opposing lines of action, a person's own values will prevail and determine which authority he follows. Or

It is clear that the disagreement between the authorities completely paralyzed action. Not

Behavior prior to this rupture is termed obedience. The point of rupture is the act of disobedience.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.

The claim 'I was only following orders' has been used to justify too many tragedies in our history.

Când un om sau domn e puternic si tare, atunci poate face pacea cum vrea dar, cand e fara putere, unul mai tare va veni asupra lui si va face cu el ceea ce va voi

A man could shoot thirty ducks if it pleased him, and then shoot thirty more the next day, and it was perfectly legal. His hunting partner was likely to be the county sheriff.

An exercise in power should never be merely and indulgence.

I had learned and written too much history not to know that the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. I knew that the same voices which yelled "Heil Schuschnigg" today would thunder "Heil Hitler" tomorrow.

La máquina de 1792, la guillotina, inventada para suprimir toda resistncia contra el Estado, es una herramienta torpe comparada con la maquinaria policíaca, combinada y refinada por la superioridad espiritual del José Fouché de 1799.

the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be.

Talleyrand define con enojo el cargo de ministro de Policia: "El ministro de Policia es un hombre que se ocupa, en primera línea, de todos los asuntos que le importan, y en segundo lugar, de todos los que no le importan".

Meine Bücherei ist mein Königreich, und hier versuche ich als absoluter Herrscher zu regieren.

should judge the aptitude of a child not by his memory but by the testimony of his life… Let the young man read and sift and verify, not just accept the authority in good faith. A rich variety of opinions must be presented to him. He will make his choice, and if he cannot, then he will remain in doubt. He who sheep-like follows another follows nothing. He discovers nothing, because he seeks nothing.

Robespierre) Bütün gücü kat?l???ndan geliyor. Her ÅŸeyde dediÄŸim dedik davranmak, hayat?n?n bütün anlam? ve biçimi oldu. Ancak böylelikle ihtilale kendi benliÄŸinin damgas?n? vurabilir ya da parçalanabilirdi. Böyle bir insan hiçbir itiraza, düÅŸüncelerde bir baÅŸka görüÅŸe katlanamaz.

How to escape the tyrannical demands that the state and Church seek to impose on me? How to protect that unique part of my soul against enforced submission to rules and measures dictated from outside?

Robespierre) EÄŸilip bükülürlüÄŸe, dirençsizliÄŸe, baÅŸar? için yaltaklanmalara kar?? beslediÄŸi kinin bütün kat?l???yla, dine baÄŸl? olanlar?n kutsall??a deÄŸer vermeyenlere kar?? duyduÄŸu güvensizlikle küçümsüyor Fouché'yi.

It is from this unusual attitude alone that we can understand how the State exploited the schools as an instrument for the maintenance of its authority.

Pero ya sabemos por la Historia que ese «jamás» de los reyes, de los políticos y de los generales suele casi siempre ser el preludio de una capitulación.

Er trat ruhig und gelassen auf den Tisch zu. Ohne sich vorzustellen - >Ihr wißt, wer ich bin, und wer ihr seid, interessiert mich nicht<, schien diese Unhöflichkeit zu besagen -, begann er mit fachmännischer Trockenheit die sachlichen Anordnungen.