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。

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

对于一个作家,大多数读者相信双重标准:他们可能经常对他不忠,但他必须永远,永远不要对他们不忠。

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

医生的生理机能与他的治疗能力之间的关系,就像牧师的神性与他影响行为的能力之间的关系一样。

We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

我们通过了重要的法律,赋予负责调查的当局广泛的权力来保护我们。

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

只要有权威,就有不服从的自然倾向。