powers that be

“The powers that be in the state of Florida wanted every aspect of U.F. to be a top-ranked school,” said Mike Spivey, the founder of Spivey Consulting, which was hired to help the University of Florida’s law school climb the rankings.

And we all know that if you substantially challenge the powers that be, then they'll use all available means to respond to that: Repression, manipulate the public sphere so it doesn't get talked about or doesn't get mentioned.

Instead, it’s actually people being selected randomly by sortition that say that the powers that be cannot interfere with who actually gets the rule, and ordinary people do not rule rather than people selected by political parties.

I don't think we should fear the act of resistance in the sense that the powers that be will put people in prison.

The film received mixed reviews, but Scott Thomas believes that artists and “the powers that be need to be braver and not just feed us what they think we want to see. We’re artists, we need artistic creativity, we don’t need ‘product’ that just gets launched.