Spirituality Quote by Talbot Mundy

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

“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

“For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Insecure men with a patina of authority could be annoying. Give those same men actual authority and they could be deadly.”

— Brad Thor

“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

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced…

— Stanley Milgram

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

— Oscar Wilde

“So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man to every man, which cannot be made void…

— Jonathan Swift

above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“No man has the right to rule over another man, otherwise such a right necessarily, and immediately becomes the right of the strongest. As…

— Abraham Kuyper

“So if we completely reject, not intellectually but actually, all so-called spiritual authority, all ceremonies, rituals and dogmas, it means that we stand alone…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Another sign of the learned man of the hereafter is that he keeps himself distant from the ruling authorities and avoids their company, because…

— Imam Al-Ghazali