Authority Quote by Terry Pratchett

“His mind, never content with shallow satisfactions, crept to the brink of knowing. What kind of power was it if it would never be…

— Chinua Achebe

“It was that his words, his telling, just did not synchronize with what his hearers believed would (and must) be the scope of a…

— William Faulkner

“never accepted things at face value, nor did what he was told to do. He had to believe something was right, and that it…

— Danielle Steel

“..."he was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From old habit, unconsciously he…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“He had meant them to be good, but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the…

— Jane Austen

“the exercise of authority was not an easy business, especially if those who exercised it no longer felt they had heaven on their side.…

— Paul Scott

“but his cares had been directed to the understanding and manners, not the disposition; and of the necessity of self-denial and humility, he feared…

— Jane Austen

“true authority came from sharing the hard work, not attempting to place oneself above it.”

— John Flanagan

“He stated that I had no place in a society whose most fundamental rules I ignored and that I could not appeal to the…

— Albert Camus

“He "had developed a trick in college for speaking with authority. He believed that breaking his argument into numbers forced people to pay attention.…

— Anonymous

“He did not expect reasonable conduct from human beings; most people were candidates for protective restraint. He simply wished they would leave him alone!—all”

— Robert A. Heinlein