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 埃里希·弗洛姆

权威不是一个人“拥有”的品质,也就是说他拥有财产或身体素质。权威是指人与人之间的一种关系,在这种关系中,一个人认为另一个人比他优越。

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A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.

总质量的一个基本原则逃过了太多管理者的注意:只有逐步完善相互依赖的人际关系,才能不断改进相互依赖的系统和过程。

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

我们真正需要理解的是,所有这些事情都很重要,它们都源于这样一个事实,即某些人生活在权力和权威之中,他们希望维持这种权力和权威。

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

建筑的任务是改善人与人之间的关系:建筑必须让人放松,而不是让人变得更糟。

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

因为,做一个陌生人自然是一种非常积极的关系;这是一种特殊的互动形式。

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

没有什么比沉默更能加强权威了。