Authority Quotes

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English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin - a language… — Bill Bryson
For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical… — Bill Bryson
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that… — Percy Lubbock
I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath. — Joe Royle
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still… — Lord Acton
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power… — Lord Acton
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of… — James Madison
Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the… — Jacques Maritain
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in… — Peter Singer
For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criticism, even plagiarism of our own uniqueness. We become… — Bruce Schneier
What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down… — Saint Augustine
It can be tempting to blame others for our loss of direction. We get lots of information about life but little education in life from… — Bernie Siegel
If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority… — George Q. Cannon
Thoughtful men, with hearts craving the truth, have come to seek in the Catholic Church the road which leads with surety to eternal life. They… — Pope Leo XIII
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter
What you allow you encourage. — Michael Josephson
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or… — Saint Augustine
No government by experts in which the masses do not have the chance to inform the experts as to their needs can be anything but… — John Dewey
Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule of… — David Icke
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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