“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.” — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the… — Daniel Seligman Copy Share Image
Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
I always said I would vote for a resolution that gave the president the leverage to go to the United Nations, and… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan… — George Washington Copy Share Image
For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end... such men as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the… — Toby Young Copy Share Image
The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
It should go without saying that regular citizens have no authority to arrest or detain anyone. — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When Jesus sent forth his servants formerly he sent them to preach this Gospel. When the Father and the Son and Moroni… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“That delicious moment when you realize people are reading your updates when they update their status with terms that only you know… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to… — Richard Holloway Copy Share Image
