Dean Ornish Quotes

Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Every central government worships uniformity: uniformity relieves it from inquiry into an infinity of details.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

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 can be big, and you can be successful, but you cannot abuse your power to stop others from challenging you from being the next big thing in five or ten years.

Authority is quite degrading.

I will make them conform, or I will harry them out of the land.

The people always have some champion who they set over them and nurse into greatness …. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears, he is a protector.

Those who can, must obey.

Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.

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.

The frustration of being ordered around by somebody to do something - everyone can relate to that. I think Beetle represents that - the common man caught in that morass of rules and regulations. I don't even think of it as an army strip... it's a world anyone can understand.

The military likes to figure out how to do something, put it in a manual or an operating procedure, and perfect doing it, and have everyone do it the same way. I don't like that.

There's nothing to fear. I'm not a dictator.

The typical German coach wants things done one way - his way.

You have the belt, you fight who they tell you to fight.

We're controlled more than any other professional sport. We're told what to wear, when to wear it, what we're allowed to say in our interviews.

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master.

Liberty... is there only when there is no abuse of power.

Obedience is the key to every door.

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us