Eugene Kennedy Quotes

The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

Some people need a command-and-control environment.

I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

That the more authoritarian organizations survive and prevail goes generally unnoticed because people focus on the objectives of organizations, which are many and varied, rather than on their structures, which lend to be similar.

I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

Most people associate command and control leadership with the military.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

My responsibility is not to the public. It is to the chairman alone.

He was in charge of everything and I was to be wherever he wasn’t.

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities.

If you've been on top of the food chain in the Armed Forces, that's who you are. You're used to dealing with your life in a particular way.

All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.

Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.

Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects it, but even its servants are uplifted by the thought that they are members of a whole, which rises high above the life and strength of single generations.

Structure is not about moving boxes around on a chart. Structure is about power.

The White House Chief of Staff must always remember that he is staff and not chief.

You must labor until we have dominion over the minds and bodies of every important person in your nation.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it...People need somebody to watch over them.... Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Always respect your superiors, if you have any.

When despotism has established itself for ages in a country, as in France, it is not in the person of the king only that it resides. It has the appearance of being so in show, and in nominal authority; but it is not so in practice and in fact. It has its standard everywhere. Every office and department has its despotism, founded upon custom and usage.

You don’t have a staff General, you have a court.

There is … no minister who would not think it safer to act by orders than from his own discretion.

Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.