Authority Quote by Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master. When we disobey the latter we are punished, when we disobey the former we are…

— Blaise Pascal

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are…

— Blaise Pascal

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position…

— Alexander Alekhine

“If the master allows himself to be commanded by a servant, the latter becomes autocratic; the mind is similarly enslaved by submitting to bodily…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her

— George Bernard Shaw

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave

— William Drummond

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

— Haile Selassie

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

— Henry Ward Beecher

For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by true reason…

— Johannes Scotus Eriugena

Laws are not masters, but servants, and he rules them, who obeys them.

— Anonymous

“The man who has dedicated himself to the success of the protect, the master builder, no longer has any freedom: his conduct is now…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

— William Penn