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Authority Quote by Joyce Cary

“No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.” quote by Joyce Cary — Download Open image

“No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.”

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“Girl going past clinging to a young man's arm. Putting up her face like a duck to the moon. Drinking joy. Green in her eyes. Spinal curvature. No chin, mouth like a frog. Young man like a pug. Gazing down at his sweetie with the face of a saint reading the works of God. Hold on, maiden, you've got him.…

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“Nothing is a masterpiece - a real masterpiece - till it's about two hundred years old. A picture is like a tree or a church, you've got to let it grow into a masterpiece. Same with a poem or a new religion. They begin as a lot of funny words. Nobody knows whether they're all nonsense or a gift from…

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

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It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and…

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The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

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Old men when they begin to hear the last trumpet, on the morning breeze, often have a kind of absent-minded smile; like people listening.…

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The principal fact of life is the free mind.

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At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

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Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities, the political, the religious, the educational authorities who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing, forming in our minds their view…

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In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding…

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Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before…

Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches talk about having evidence of Divine authority because they have miracles. Miracles in our time are like candles in the street at midday. We do not want miracles. They are to teach men how to find…

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I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's…

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