Quotes 81 till 100 of 129.
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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.
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Small have continual plodders ever won, save base authority from other's books.
Source: Love's Labour's Lost, I, I -
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
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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.
Source: Individual Liberty -
The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.
Source: Individual Liberty Voluntary Cooperation a Remedy -
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
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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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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.
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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
Source: Address to Unitarian Ministers -
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Source: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 225 -
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
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The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country.
Source: Inauguratie 2001
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