Quotes with authority

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  • Arthur Keith The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Camille Paglia The Seventies theory explosion was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • George Washington The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Benjamin Tucker The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Plato The wisest have the most authority.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Stephen Hawking There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works.
    Interview ABC World News (7 June 2010)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Nadine Gordimer There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bhagat Singh There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Aristide Briand This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.
    Aristide Briand
    French statesman (1862 - 1932)
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  • Malcolm Forbes Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Ernest Renan To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Albert Einstein To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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  • Maurice Blanchot To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
    Maurice Blanchot
    French writer and philosopher (1907 - 2003)
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  • Francis Bacon Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Ultimately, the court is heading to a doctrine of 'separation of campaign and state.' This doctrine, like separation of church and state or separation of military and civilian authority, is not explicit in the Constitution but flows naturally from its structure and commitment to freedom and democracy.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Barbara Lee We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
    Barbara Lee
    American politician (1946 - )
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