Charles Baudelaire Quotes

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

When you're asked/told to come to Canberra by your Prime Minister, in the country I grow up in, you obey that.

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

The silence of peoples is something kings should study.

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.

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

What is the cause of historical events? Power. What is power? Power is the sum total of wills transferred to one person. On what condition are the willso fo the masses transferred to one person? On condition that the person express the will of the whole people. That is, power is power. That is, power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand.

The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Who controls the present controls the past. There's a power structure, if you like, between the present and the past and the future, and that's what I'm interested in.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

I'm fairly obedient. I do what I'm told.

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

One of the main ways that leadership stays in power is by, in various ways, convincing people that they should just let those who are in government govern: 'Trust us. Trust me. Just let us take care of things. Stay out of it.' Your opinions don't really matter. You are isolated. You are insignificant.

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

He who allows me to rule is in fact my master.

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a half grade or move into more challenging classes. While it was all right for me to know more about a topic than my sixth-grade teacher had ever learned, questioning her facts could only lead to trouble.