Quotes About Authority

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored.

Quien calla una palabra es su dueño; quien la pronuncia es su esclavo.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Her age was one of the reasons she always got away with it. In Africa elderly people still command respect.

In the military I could exercise the power of being automatically respected because of the medals on my chest, not because I had done anything right at the moment to earn that respect. This is pretty nice. It's also a psychological trap that can stop one's growth and allow one to get away with just plain bad behavior.

For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.

I would rather find a single causal law than be the king of Persia!

What we call nowadays totalitarianism belongs to a tradition which is just as old or just as young as our civilization itself

Never can an authority admit that the intellectually courageous - those who dare to defy his authority - may be the most valuable type.

If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.

Devlet gerekli bir belad?r. Devletin güç yetkileri gere?inden fazla olmamal?d?r.

Demokrasi ve despotizm aras?ndaki fark: demokrasilerde kan dökmeden hükümetler devrilir; oysa despotizmde bu böyle de?ildir. 3. Demokrasi, vatanda?lara iyilikler sunamaz (ve sunmamal? da). Gerçekten de "demokrasi" tek ba??na bir ?ey yapamaz; bir ?eyler yapacak olan ancak demokratik bir devletin vatanda?lar?d?r (ve ku?kusuz hükümetleridir).

Demek ki Platon'un, "Kim yönetmeli?" ya da "Kim iktidar sahibi olmal??" sorusu yanl??t?r. demokrasiye inanmamam?z?n nedeni, demokraside halk?n egemen olmas?ndan kaynaklanm?yor. Ne siz ne de ben hakimiz; tam tersine sizler de, ben de yönetiliyoruz, hatta bazen ho?umuza gitmeyecek kadar çok. demokrasi bizim için, siyasi muhalefet ve bu nedenle de siyasi özgürlük anlay???yla uzla?abilen tek yönetim biçimidir.

Ben bir ölçek önermi?tim: Ço?unluk bir hükümet de?i?ikli?ini arzu etti?i takdirde, devletin politik kurumlar? vatanda?lar?na, kan dökmeksizin hükümet de?i?ikli?ini gerçekle?tirmeyi mümkün k?l?yorsa, o devlet politik olarak özgürdür. Daha k?sa bir ifadeyle: yöneticilerimizden kan dökmeden kurtulabiliyorsak özgürüz demektir. (Hayat Problem Çözmektir)

When the National Institutes of Health makes an announcement through one of its many spokespeople, who

When the National Institutes of Health makes an announcement through one of its many spokespeople, who checks out the credibility of that statement?

We accept the proclamations of scientists in their lab coats with the same faith once reserved for priests.

One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.

There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

It has puzzled me that men, who claim more and more authority over women, show such fear of those whom they call weak. Perhaps they are hoping that women will come to believe that they need to be protected and dominated, but I cannot imagine any woman being so foolish.

Power does not willingly give up its place to truth.

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

The term "politics" shall refer to power-structured relationships, arrangements whereby one group of persons is controlled by another. By