1,121 Quotes About Authority

When leaders don't find the way, find new leaders.

No person should have the right, let alone the power, to exert authority over any other human being.

The infrastructure of power is human neurosoft compatible ROM. Authority instantiates itself as linear instruction pathways, genetic baboonery, scriptures, traditions, rituals, and gerontocratic hierarchies, resonant with the dominator ur-myth that the nature of reality has already been decided. If you want to find ICE, try thinking about what is blocking you out of the past. It certainly isn’t a law of nature. Temporalization decompresses intensity, installing constraint.

Power, actual, real power, well, is held by a tiny minority, but not exercising power does not mean that you cannot have authority, and there is always steerability. Influencing is achieved not by remaining silent, but by suggesting ideas and exposing inefficiencies.

Reasonably question the motives of power and authority despite its source, because people are often inclined to abuse them.

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious, and proclaimed as such by those whom the mob adores as the interpreters of nature and the gods. For these men know that, once ignorance is put aside, that wonderment would be taken away, which is the only means by which their authority is preserved.

There is more for us to gain through love than hate.

To shift the power, democracy replaced bloodshed with ballot .

Democracy saved you from being a slave, now don't try to be someone's master.