Authority Quote by Robert E. Lee Download Open image “Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.” — Robert E. Lee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Character Foundation Manly Obedience Power
The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority. — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men… — William Temple Copy Share Image
“The existence of laws, regulations, and procedures has never been sufficient to compel men to obedience. Productive obedience comes through the exercise of free… — Dean L. Larsen Copy Share Image
“So long as human beings can gain sufficient co-operation from some to enable them to dominate others, they will use the forms of law… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The more a man departs from lawful authority, that is, authority normally constituted, whether by God or by the nature of things, the more… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable,… — John White Geary Copy Share Image
“Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power, or debased by the habit of obedience; but by the exercise of a power which… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“enforce obedience thereto. The object, on either side, doth not justify the means; for the lives of men are too” — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The man who submits to violence is debased by his compliance; but when he submits to that right of authority which he acknowledges in… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean to do… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible. — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes, and rivers,… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
We cannot afford to be idle, and though weaker than our opponents in men and military equipments, must endeavor to harass, if we cannot… — Robert E. Lee 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
