Authority (n.) belongs to whoever has the skill: offered for sale, Diogenes looked for a slave rather than a master, and promptly told his buyer how to dress and raise his sons.
Authority (n.) won by great men makes their successors prefer agreeing with them to seeking better for themselves.
Authority (n.) is what most people crave: something to admire, to submit to, to be dominated and even ill-treated by — the longing for the father that lives in each of us from childhood.
Authority (n.) can be won without any decree: the Areopagus took control after Salamis simply because it had paid the sailors to board.
Domination (n.) may be politely blamed for policy as a vague 'desire'; linking it to keeping the world open to U.S. corporations is extremely impolite.
Domination (n.) is not just the political echo of economic exploitation; it is exploitation's instrument and the condition that makes it possible.
Domination (n.) by religion is, on inspection, the religion of domination.
Domination (n.) imposes, in economics as in politics, the function of dominating on those in power — they must know how to consume labour-power.
Guidance (n.) from God should be asked as a traveller asks the way, with no preference for left or right, and taken as the eyes take whatever they are shown.
Guidance (n.) has a clear picture in the pianola, whose hammers read any pattern of holes, unlike a lock's bolt, which answers only the one key built for it.
Guidance (n.) can resemble a friend who walks you along a smooth path home until it suddenly ends and then says you have only to find the rest of the way from here.
Guidance (n.) acquired in an instant betrays the false knight of faith; men leap aside from the martyrdom of being uncomprehended into admiration for their proficiency.
Ideological control (n.) works best when everyone thinks what he knows is a local exception: the facts appear in local papers, while the national pattern stays hidden.
Ideological control (n.) perpetuates itself by selection: those who rise in institutions have no trouble obeying, because obedience is how they got there.
Ideological control (n.) in America is more effective than Soviet control ever was: a Moscow broadcaster called Afghanistan an invasion for five nights; no American anchor could say it of Vietnam.