"The power of authority is never more subtle……" — Arthur Balfour
"The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others."
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Arthur Balfour
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28 Quotes by Arthur Balfour
Arthur Balfour has 28 quotes on this site.
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Enthusiasm moves the world.
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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
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Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of…
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.
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I never forgive, but I always forget.
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But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge,…
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Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
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Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its…
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Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have…
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in…
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the…
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live…
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes.…
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational…
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long.…
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every…
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