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Authority Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero
- The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
- Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
- The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign…
- A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely…
- Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
- Nothing in oratory is more important than to win for the orator the favour of his hearer, and to have the latter so affected as…
- Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
- Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any…
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- Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. — Francis Bacon
- A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. — Pearl Bailey
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- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
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- No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison