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title: "5 Human Authority Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [“The truth that is variously enacted by such agents is not an idea or a proposition. It is rather a habit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-brueggemann/the-truth-that-is-variously-enacted-by-such-agents-is-not-an-idea-or/)

[Walter Brueggemann](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-brueggemann/)

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> [In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/madeleine-de-souvre-marquise-de-sable/in-knowledge-of-human-affairs-we-should-never-allow-our-minds-to-be/)

[Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/madeleine-de-souvre-marquise-de-sable/)

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> [Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yuval-noah-harari/just-as-divine-authority-was-legitimised-by-religious-mythologies-and/)

[Yuval Noah Harari](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yuval-noah-harari/)

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> [“Human authority. Moralists tend to obey human authorities (family, tribe, government, and cultural customs) too anxiously, since they rely heavily on their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/human-authority-moralists-tend-to-obey-human-authorities-family-tribe/)

[Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/)

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> [The authority of God is behind the establishing of human authority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alistair-begg/the-authority-of-god-is-behind-the-establishing-of-human-authority/)

[Alistair Begg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alistair-begg/)

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