Authority Quotes - Page 5

• I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

  Herbert Read

  Literature, Natural

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• I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas.

  Susan Cain

  Ideas, People, Worry

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.52, Broadway Books

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• Respect authority while questioning it.

  Randy Pausch

  Questioning

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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• Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Favors, May

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• Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Moral, Unesco, Courses

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• Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

  Arleigh Burke

  Leadership, Navy, Use

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• For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Peace, Military, War

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• The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

  Thomas Huxley

  Thinking, Appeals, Court

  "\Rhetoric and Incommensurability". Book by Randy Allen Harris (p. 228), 2005.

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• I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Truth, Knowledge, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770”, p.454, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Band, Lawyer

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• Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Enemy, Literature, Possession

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• Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

  John Mellencamp

  Teacher, School, Fighting

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• I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

  John Mellencamp

  Song, Thinking, Guy

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• Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Work, Men, Two

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• I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

  Tupac Shakur

  Leadership, Respect, Thinking

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

  Hu Shih

  Mean, Revolution, Breakdown

  Hu Shih (2013). “English Writings of Hu Shih: Chinese Philosophy and Intellectual History”, p.141, Springer Science & Business Media

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• I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

  Nikki Sixx

  Teenager, Trying, Adults

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• Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

  Tony Snow

  Military, Giving, Liberty

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• You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Funny, Relationship, Leadership

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• Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Atheism, Doe, Boots

  Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (1980). “Bakunin on anarchism”

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• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  Walter Lippmann

  Freedom, Men, Effort

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.14, Transaction Publishers

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• He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Anger, Noise, Arguing

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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• The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Reality, Discovery, Belief

  1970 BBC interview, 7 Dec.

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• With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Names, Errors, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.15

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