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“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“Authority is quite degrading”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.”
George Carlin Quotes |
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“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.”
Matt Groening Quotes |
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“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”
Michel de Montaigne Quotes |
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“All authority belongs to the people”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ð your mind and your mouth”
African Proverb Quotes |
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“The wisest have the most authority”
Plato Quotes |
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“I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.”
Bill Cosby Quotes |
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“All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either
upon an art, or upon a man.
- Francis Bacon,”
Francis Bacon Quotes Source: Natural History--Century X--Touching emission of immateriate virtues, etc.
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“For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of
death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things
whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I
appeal unto Caesar.”
Bible Quotes Source: Acts (ch. XXV, v. 11)
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“Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud, and vain.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 283)
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“He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains
in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 283)
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“Authority is never without hate.”
Samuel Butler (1) Quotes Source: Miscellaneous Thoughts (l. 283)
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“Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: All's Well That Ends Well (Parolles at II, iii)
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“Shall remain!
Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
His absolute 'shall'?”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Coriolanus (Coriolanus at III, i)
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“Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? . . . And the
creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great
image of authority--a dog's obeyed in office.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: King Lear (King Lear at IV, vi)
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“Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Macbeth (Angus at V, ii)
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“Thus can the demigod Authority
Make us pay down for our offense by weight
The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will,
On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Measure for Measure (Claudio at I, ii)
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“Merciful heaven,
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man,
Dressed in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured
His glassy essence--like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
would all themselves laugh mortal.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: Measure for Measure (Isabella at II, ii)
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“He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him
gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led
by the nose with gold.”
William Shakespeare Quotes Source: The Winter's Tale (Clown at IV, iv)
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“Authority forgets a dying king,
Laid widow'd of the power in his eye
That bow'd the will.”
Lord Alfred Tennyson Quotes Source: Morte d'Arthur (l. 121)
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“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Thomas Huxley Quotes |
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“A position of authority is neither necessary nor sufficient for the exercise of leadership.”
Eric Werkowitz Quotes |
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