Authority Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced. — Homer Copy Share Image
“Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them. — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Better be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I cannot approve of monarchs who want to rule over the conscience of the people, and take away their freedom of choice and religion. — William the Silent Copy Share Image
Kings govern by popular assemblies only when they cannot do without them. — Charles James Fox Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of hierarchies that grant privileges to members who fail to uphold those values - there are plenty of those… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde 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