Authority Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte Download Open image “Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.” — Napoleon Bonaparte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Ignorance Obedience Ought Stupidity
“To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency. As is letting our… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
We have a greater responsibility to act than those who live in ignorance. Once you become knowledgeable, you have an obligation to do something… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
“To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency.” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“To permit ignorance is to empower it. To do nothing as our leaders proclaim absurdities is a crime of complacency. As is letting our… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it. — Steve Chabot Copy Share Image
Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't think that, you know, adherence to ignorance is really something that encourages voters to support you. — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image