"My favourite mentor brother told me that there……" — Isobelle Carmody
"My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. 'I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister' he said"
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Isobelle Carmody
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25 Quotes by Isobelle Carmody
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The very shape of our dreams defines us. We learn about the world and try out our thoughts and visions…
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The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.
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The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person…
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Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they…
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Maruman does not loll.
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You are born with the yearning arrow, my Glynna, though you are not yet fully aware of it. It is…
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The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves…
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Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
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Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see…
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
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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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I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel 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
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