Authority Quotes
2019 quotes by 1357 authors
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To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining…
— Martin Van Buren
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If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder:…
— Sun Tzu
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When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers…
— Sun Tzu
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If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. If the banners and flags are shifted about, sedition is afoot. If the…
— Sun Tzu
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These are the six ways of courting defeat - neglect to estimate the enemy's strength; want of authority; defective training; unjustifiable anger; nonobservance of discipline;…
— Sun Tzu
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When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation causes a human…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they…
— Frank P. Ramsey
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The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate the home are…
— Paulo Freire
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Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral…
— Paulo Freire
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Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority are the price…
— Vince Lombardi
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Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the…
— Charles de Gaulle
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It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire
— John L. Dagg
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In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous…
— Edmund Burke
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All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
— Frank Chodorov
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Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such…
— William Shakespeare
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Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and…
— Dan Barker
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I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.
— W.C. Fields
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Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became…
— Tommy Bolt
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The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.
— George Mason
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As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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