Quotes About Authority

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

El cerebro humano, una vez que ha adoptado una opinión, selecciona cuidadosamente toda la información que recibe para apoyar y estar de acuerdo con ella. Y aunque haya un mayor número de evidencia y ejemplos que prueben lo contrario, o bien la descuida y la desprecia, o bien la deja de lado y la rechaza para que con esta predeterminación perniciosa, la autoridad de sus primeras conclusiones puedan permanecer invioladas". (Francis Bacon, 1602).

Kaylie looks him over. "Are you a sub pilot?" "Head instructor." David feels the blood rush from his face. "You're in charge? I thought I—

Touch me with those and your next job will be cleaning bed pans." "I clean bed pans every day.

The law is where reality goes to die.

Life and death have equal authority in nature. When laws contradict so fundamentally they cause mere confusion in the average soul

Never refer to a large dog as a friend - he is in custody and he knows it.

genuine power doesn't have to enforce it by example. Assumed power, on the other hand, requires folks' belief–it depends upon the victim's industry. Without that, it ... just sits in a room, referring to itself as authority.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

No group, however benevolent, can ever hand power to the vanquished on a plate.

people were often surprised to learn that game wardens were in fact real police officers, commissioned with the power to enforce any state law, not just hunting and fishing regulations.

C.I.A. had "a culture of insularity." The attitude they projected was "Nobody should tell us what to do. We got it. We are special

Panetta dined with Pasha and Asif Zardari, Benazir Bhutto's widow, who shared authority uneasily with the army. Zardari made jokes about I.S.I.'s pervasive surveillance of him—jokes that sounded paranoid but were grounded in fact. "Ahmed knows everything I think and everything I say," Zardari remarked of the I.S.I. chief sitting near him. "I walk into my office every morning and say, 'Hello, Ahmed!

Far from being this big, booming voice, the Daily Mail is just a little man behind a curtain.

The sovereignty of God means that He is King and He is in absolute control; and it also means that we are not.

There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.

Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

public opinion surveys consistently show that people are pro-science as a mode of inquiry, but anti-science as a mode of authority.

Unfortunately we live in a time in which only those who have themselves conducted science in some authorized manner are allowed to say anything about what science is and where it should go.

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

So there it was. My big lesson of the day, something I'd take with me and never forget. The whole legal system – if you think it's just a big set of rules, you're dead wrong. It's really a bunch of people sitting around and talking to each other, deciding what they want to do with you. When they make their decision, then they pull out whatever rule they need to make it happen.

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

the best way to become successful is to master and control things you have control over.

Today is the only day in which we have any power."