Social order Quote by Noam Chomsky

“Apart from the peculiar tenets of individual thinkers, there is also in the world at large an increasing inclination to stretch unduly the powers…

— John Stuart Mill

“On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power—authority—exists only as it is perceived.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised; and with regard to those…

— Thomas Paine

“The public must be reduced to passivity in the political realm, but for submissiveness to become a reliable trait, it must be entrenched in…

— Noam Chomsky

“Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.”

— Watchman Nee

“The authority of society is imposed not arbitrarily or officially, but naturally. And it is because of this fact that its effect on the…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Authority in the world is being increasingly undermined until at the end all authorities will be overthrown and lawlessness shall rule.”

— Watchman Nee

“I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to think for…

— Leonora Carrington

“Arbitrary government operating by force, by terror, must destroy the best, the boldest dissenters in sheer self-defence; soon it finds itself destroying all who,…

— Edward Crankshaw

“There is nothing mysterious or natural about authority. It is formed, irradiated, disseminated; it is instrumental, it is persuasive; it has status, it establishes…

— Edward W. Said

“Authority is an inescapable fact of political existence, and to imply that anyone who respects authority is prone to violence against the weak and…

— Dante L. Germino