When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.
Slavoj Žižek
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This page presents the quote "When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.". Author of this quote is Slavoj Žižek. This quote is about authority, symbolic, compulsion, brute force, agency,.