Authority Quote by Aeschines Download Open image “An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.” — Aeschines ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Community Evil Great author Misfortunes Nature Power
Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed. — Bob Riley Copy Share Image
The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue. — Francois Guizot Copy Share Image
“truly evil people, with all their malice and hatred, pose far less of a threat to mankind than the basically good people who believe… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
“The evil of aristocracy is not that it necessarily leads to the infliction of bad things or the suffering of sad ones; the evil… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as… — James Woods Copy Share Image
Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Misfortune and experience are lost upon mankind, when they produce neither reflection nor reformation. Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“submitting to authority is never for evil, but always for blessing.” — K.P. Yohannan Copy Share Image
“What strange and unexpected event has not occurred in our time? The life we have lived is no ordinary human one, but we were born to… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased. — Aeschines Copy Share Image
A defeat in war is not the greatest of all evils; but when the defeat has been inflicted by enemies who are not worthy… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligarchy, and democracy: autocracies and oligarchies are administered according… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
Men of real merit, and whose noble and glorious deeds we are ready to acknowledge, are yet not to be endured when they vaunt… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the… — Aeschines Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
