Authority Quotes - Page 31

• One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great successes of the past--they say their deities are the masters of all the universes, and yet that they require grandmothers to defend them, as if they were children frightened by poultry. Or that the authority that punishes no one while there exists a chance for reformation will punish everyone when there is no possibility anyone will become the better for it.

  Gene Wolfe

  Children, Grandmother, Past

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.57, Macmillan

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• The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

  James Gleick

  Doubt, Alternatives, Century

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• Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.

  Mitchell Baker

  Jobs, Smart, Giving

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• I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

  Marilyn French

  Believe, Equal, Humans

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• I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and classicism... I felt a tremendous urge to re-create a new world seen through my own eyes, a world which was entirely mine.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Eye, World, Habit

  Maurice de Vlaminck (1967). “Dangerous corner”

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• The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity.

  Adolf Hitler

  Foundation, Firsts, Popularity

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police into a political instrument of the highest State authority.

  Adolf Hitler

  Giving, Political, Police

  Richard Breiting, Adolf Hitler (1971). “Secret conversations with Hitler: the two newly-discovered 1931 interviews”

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• Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

  William James

  Anxiety, Experts, Saint

  William James (2017). “Habit”, p.22, Read Books Ltd

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• The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Men, Thinking

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• Physical violence is the basis of authority.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Violence, Bases, Physical Violence

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.185, eKitap Projesi

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• It is by the Lord's stripes that we are healed, and it is through our own stripes that we, too, are given the authority for healing. In the place where the enemy wounds us, once we are healed, we are given the power to heal others.

  Rick Joyner

  Healing, Stripes, Enemy

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• You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
  You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish.
  You are the only authority on what is best for you.

  Hugh Prather

  Immature, Needs, Reason

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• Be yourself. Don't pretend that you know something you don't. Don't create the appearance of fake authority. Speak about the things you really care about.

  Agnieszka Holland

  Being Yourself, Fake, Care

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In some ways I'm oddly traditional, I've been a serial monogamist since I was 12. I've always tried to work hard and get good grades and be a good person, but I feel like I've also always had a strange defiance of authority or the status quo, I've never understood why things always have to be just one way.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Hard Work, Way, Strange

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you're sick, first you have to associate your sickness with a food. Then you have to report it to your doctor. Then the doctor reports it to some state authority. The state authority reports it to the federal authority. By the time all that happens, two weeks have gone by.

  Marion Nestle

  Two, Doctors, Sick

  "MoJo Audio: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine". Interview with Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation and leadership, not solely on employment or a title or a business plan. Technical colleagues will define "open" as "open standards," "interoperable" - you can find it, search it, cut and paste it, view source, mix and match - all those things that we associate with text on the Web, that you can continue to do that with audio and video and whatever's next.

  Mitchell Baker

  Cutting, Views, Decision

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• The intelligence services would probably be in a better position to make an assessment of the advancement of the Iranian nuclear program than Podhoretz or Ledeen. They don't have access to any specific information. So for them to dismiss it has no great value because they have no authority whatsoever on this issue. For them to push forward with their efforts to get a war started between the U.S. and Iran, you certainly cannot say that Iran does not have a nuclear program. If you say that, then the justification for war has basically been eliminated.

  Trita Parsi

  War, Intelligence Services, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Think about that: at a time when it was inconceivable to have a woman rabbi or a woman scholar of Christian theology or canon law, the Islamic civilization boasted hundreds of women who were authorities in Islamic law and Islamic theology and that taught some of the most famous male jurists and left behind a remarkable corpus of writings.

  Khaled Abou El Fadl

  Christian, Islamic, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Mikhail Saakashvili would do everything within his power to destroy me, first as a politician and then as a person. All government authorities, including the police, the military and the courts, are controlled by those in power.

  Irakli Okruashvili

  Military, Government, Police

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Writing, Listening

  "Music, Influence, and "Deeply Unnecessary" Art". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. March 17, 2015.

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• The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Home, Thinking, Careers

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God. I receive such and such doctrines, not because I can prove them to be compatible with reason, not because my judgment accepts them, but because God says they are true. Now this is one of the best services we can render to God,-to submit ourselves to him in our belief of what he has revealed, and ask him to fix his truths in our hearts, and make us obey them.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Heart, Doctrine

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• The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

  David Edward

  Self, Common Sense, People

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• Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

  Les Back

  Stupid, Differences, Brilliant

  Les Back (2007). “The art of listening”, Berg Publishers

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• ... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Believe, White, Black

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