Authority Quote by William Penn Download Open image “Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.” — William Penn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Example Failing Failure Pace Power
“Don’t mistake me,” Jasnah continued. “Some kinds of power are real—power to command armies, power to Soulcast. These come into play far less often… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On an individual basis, in most interactions, this thing we call power—authority—exists only as it is perceived.” — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, then, between "power" and "authority." Power refers to one's ability to coerce others (through physical, economic, or other means)… — Joshua Meyrowitz Copy Share Image
In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in,… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“[...] genuine power doesn't have to enforce it by example. Assumed power, on the other hand, requires folks' belief–it depends upon the victim's industry.… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please… — William Penn Copy Share Image
All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is… — William Penn Copy Share Image
By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine;… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. — William Penn Copy Share Image
We are apt to be very pert at censuring others, where we will not endure advice. — William Penn Copy Share Image
It is admirable to consider how many millions of people come into, and go out of the world, ignorant of themselves and of the… — William Penn 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
