Authority Hierarchy Quotes

You cannot effectuate change if you do not have power.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

The Military shall be subordinate to the Civil authority

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful...

Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.