Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly…

Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show…

— William E. Gladstone

For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on…

— Plato

I love the Irish for their attachment to the faith and for many amiable and noble qualities, but they are deficient in good sense,…

— Orestes Brownson

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

— James Burgh

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion…

— Rudy Giuliani

The inability to access evidence or intelligence despite the lawful authority to do so significantly impacts the FBI's ability to identify, investigate, prosecute, or…

— Christopher A. Wray

“The more a man departs from lawful authority, that is, authority normally constituted, whether by God or by the nature of things, the more…

— Antonin Sertillanges

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for…

— Plato

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they…

— John Milton

I have a lack of practical skills. I can't mend anything or do anything manly; I don't understand how anything works.

— Richard Herring

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Think about it. He drinks poison. What kind of man drinks poison? She is the one who stabs herself with his dagger. The manly…

— Anne Fortier

By experience; by a sense of human frailty; by a perception of "the soul of goodness in things evil;" by a cheerful trust in…

— Frederick William Robertson

Self-negation is noble, self-culture beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared with self-abuse.

— Pope Julius II

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi