Authority Quotes - Page 2

• The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, People, Too Much

  Laozi, D. C. Lau (1989). “Tao Te Ching”, p.109, Chinese University Press

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• My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Authority And Power

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Patriotic, Men, Thinking

  "The Problem of Dissent". "Saturday Review" Magazine, Volume 48, December 1965.

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• Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Distance, Political, Politics

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• Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

  John Winthrop

  Honesty, Liberty, Ends

  John Winthrop (1853). “The History of New England from 1630 to 1649”, p.281

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• No moral system can rest solely on authority.

  A.J. Ayer

  Insightful, Morality, Moral

  Humanist Outlook (1968) introduction

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• But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Abuse, Separation Of Powers

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.205, Library of Alexandria

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• There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth.

  Molefi Kete Asante

  Two, Mind, Mouths

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• For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

  Theodore White

  Break Up, Time, Men

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• Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

  William O. Douglas

  Fear, History, Bows

  "Colten v. Kentucky, 407 U.S. 104". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 12, 1972.

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• War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

  James Madison

  Peace, War, Government

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Liberty, Gold, Noses

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• It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

  Adnan Pachachi

  Army, Wells

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• The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

  Arthur Keith

  Balance, Liberty, Problem

  Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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• I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Believe, Historical, Events

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• The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

  Austin O'Malley

  Men, Stronger, Privilege

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• A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

  Marianne Williamson

  Motivational, Acting, Levels

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

  Ernestine Rose

  Rights, Self, Two

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• Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Respect, Self, Order

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• My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

  Pierre Corneille

  Feelings, Reason

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• I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Inspirational, Leadership, Book

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• I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

  Hal Holbrook

  Thinking, Discipline, Resistance

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• We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Generations, Literature

  "Selected Literary Criticism".

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• A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

  Thomas Szasz

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

  'The Second Sin' (1973) 'Education'

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• His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

  John Stott

  Giving, Choices, Heaven

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