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Authority Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
- I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,…
- The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning…
- A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where…
- They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims;…
- When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration of a word;…
- Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.
- The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval…
More Authority Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. — Mikhail Bakunin
- The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will… — Samuel Adams
- The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate… — Paulo Freire
- Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry… — William Shakespeare
- I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or… — Thomas Jefferson
- To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become… — Maurice Blanchot