Quotes with authority

Quotes 81 till 100 of 129.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Shakespeare Small have continual plodders ever won, save base authority from other's books.
    Love's Labour's Lost, I, I
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ronald Reagan Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists most certainly believe in the Church; only they insist that all its work shall be purely voluntary, and that its discoveries and achievements, however beneficial, shall not be imposed upon the individual by authority.
    Individual Liberty
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
    Individual Liberty Voluntary Cooperation a Remedy
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Gloria Steinem The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Agnes E. Meyer The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology.
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  • Hannah Arendt The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Juvenal The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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  • Benjamin Tucker The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
    Address to Unitarian Ministers
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Lionel Trilling The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
    Lionel Trilling
    American Critic (1905 - 1975)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • William Hazlitt The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Lord Acton The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Aeschylus The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 225
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Bill Forsyth The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
    Bill Forsyth
    Scottish film director and writer (1946 - )
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  • George W. Bush The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.
    Inauguratie 2001
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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