Authority In the fields of sociology and political science, authority is the legitimate power of a person or group over other people.
Political Authority
In European political philosophy, the jurisdiction of political authority, the location of sovereignty, the balancing of notions of freedom and authority,8 and the requirements of political obligations have been core questions from the time of Plato and Aristotle to the present. Most democratic societies are engaged in an ongoing discussion regarding the legitimate extent of the exercise of governmental authority. In the United States, for instance, there is a prevailing belief that the political system as instituted by the Founding Fathers should accord the populace as much freedom as reasonable; that government should limit its authority accordingly, known as limited government.
Political anarchism is a philosophy which rejects the legitimacy of political authority and adherence to any form of sovereign rule or autonomy of a nation-state.2 An argument for political anarchy is made by Michael Huemer in his book The Problem of Political Authority. On the other side, one of the main arguments for the legitimacy of the state is some form of the social contract theory developed by Thomas Hobbes in his 1668 book, Leviathan, or by Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his political writings on the social contract.
There can be no such thing as external authority
“It is only the belief in the legitimacy of the ruling class, the belief that we are obligated to obey it because it's "authority". It has the right to rule, we have the obligation to obey — that belief is a lie, and that belief is the entire problem.”
- Larken Rose
“José Alfonso Hernando, who has developed a theory of everything (TOE) in Spanish, uses the term tejedores de realidades sociales (weavers of social realities) to describe the "authorities" on any particular subject”
Authority is violence It requires a type of violence in consciousness
There is no authority
No person or group has any inherent authority to define what is true, what is right
Authority is the attempt to subjugate and control.
Authority is the result of fear
Authority attempts to dominate and overpower because it fears powerlessness and knows its own inner impotence Rather than knowing that each individual being is as powerful as he or she needs to be to...
Authority always seeks to maintain the status quo
The authority of pundits in media The authority of the scientific establishment The authority of religious institutions
Authority says "It is so because we say it is. "Truth is what we tell you is truth"
The blind adherence to authority has lead to countless atrocities. Good people who commit acts of violence because they are ordered to. Soldiers acting on commands
We have chosen to give our power away to others. And this situation of the oppressors and the oppressed, the "leaders" and the followers, will continue until we the people no longer choose to give away our responsibility, power, and sovereignty.
The authorities will tell you all kinds of things in very confident and self-important voices The newsman reads from the TelePrompTer The pope quotes from the Bible But no one has any clue what's going on No one has any idea
It was the authorities who killed Jesus
The only authority is the sovereign inner authority of the individual Taking the one seat
You must reject all forms of authority And it can slip in in many subtle ways...
True rebellion
In our age there are no more kings So each individual may be a king
The New Earth will have no authority. There is no place for it here. A collective
There may be a loose organizational structure, but no rigid hierarchy and authority
The leaders will be servants
We have been conditioned and schooled to believe in authority, to trust authority, to respect authority.
Some twisted logic that authority is right because it is authority Authority has become synonymous with truth. “Mainstream is truth”
To give our power away we willingly gave “authority” permission to “take care” of us, to rule us.
There are many forms of authority Religion, government, the scientific establishment, media, military, education(schools and academia),
Government is another form of religion and religion is another form of government
We are our governments We have created them and sustained them through our acquiescence, our belief in their authority, their power, their legitimacy,
Authority Quotes
“The reason it is so important that people understand this fact is that the primary danger posed by the myth of "authority" is to be found not in the minds of the controllers in "government" but in the minds of those being controlled, ….In other words, the problem is not that evil people believe in "authority"; the problem is that basically good people believe in "authority," and as a result, end up advocating and even committing acts of aggression, injustice and oppression, even murder.”
- Larked Rose
“Despite the fact that "governments" always claim to be acting on behalf of the people and the common good, the truth is that "government," by its very nature, is always in direct opposition to the interests of mankind. "Authority" is not a noble idea that sometimes goes wrong, nor is it a basically valid concept that is sometimes corrupted. From top to bottom, from start to finish, the very concept of "authority" itself is antihuman and horribly destructive.”
- Larked Rose
All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the followers and followers destroy the leaders. You have to be your own teacher and your own disciple. You have to question everything that man has accepted as valuable, as necessary.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality. One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.” Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.” Jiddu Krishnamurti
“When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti