Authority Quote by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Why should workers agree to be slaves in a basically authoritarian structure? They should have control over it themselves. Why shouldn't communities have a…

— Noam Chomsky

“When people say that school prepares children for the real world, what's implied is that it is the difficult parts of school (doing things…

— Rue Kream

“This is how power works. The ones at the top make use of ideals, beliefs and money to entice those below them to give…

— Chan Ho-Kei

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of…

— John Taylor Gatto

If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others

— Abraham Lincoln

Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating them to…

— Paulo Freire

“If we are not prepared to think for ourselves, and to make the effort to learn how to do this well, we will always…

— Jonathan Lavery William Hughes Katheryn Doran

Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you…

— Noam Chomsky

Unquestioning obedience is for slaves, the uneducated and the pathetic.

— Trudi Canavan

Unquestionably, it is the duty of every master to watch over the religious and moral culture of his slaves, and to give them every…

— Roger B. Taney

The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and…

— Sigmund Freud

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to…

— George Santayana