Things Everyone Obeys And No One Wrote Down

Accumulate Weight

Allow

Amplify Consequences

Are Mostly Expectations

Are Mostly Relationship

Become Real Through Recognition

Borrow

Certify

Change Meaning Depending On Who Holds Them

Change You Without Asking

Circulate

Convert Knowledge Into Action

Create Asymmetry

Create Gravity

Create Legitimacy

Erode

Exist Between People

Exist Mostly In Consequence

Exist Mostly In Their Consequences

Gather Around Success

Legitimize Ownership

Legitimize Passage

make other things bigger

Need Belief

Need Boundaries

Need Defense

Need Interpretation To Exist

Need To Be Earned

Only Exist Because We Agreed

Only Get Noticed When They Break

Organize Conflict

Organize Fear

Quietly Measure Character

Reward Concentration

Turn Influence Into Responsibility

Turn Wealth Into Influence

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is (as irrational authority) always built upon the buttresses of power on the one side and fear on the other.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. Erich Fromm

is a concept that is disappearing because we no longer have experiences common to all (i.e. Those undisputable things which authority rests upon ).

authority has vanished from the modern world. . . . Since we can no longer fall back upon authentic and undisputable experiences common to all, the very term has become clouded by controversy and confusion.

is a solution to the problem we call 'men trying to live together'.

The problem of authority is 'men trying to live together, expecting so much devotion and self-control while doing so little to define their relations' (LK.: 96)

The People adore authority. (Charles Baudelaire)

is all quite degrading... it degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised. Oscar Wilde

is strengthened and confirmed by nothing so much as by custom, for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom... for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. (Sir William Temple)

is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. (Erich Fromm)

is not power... that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge... that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

Authority is not power... that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge... that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard. Herman Kahn

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