Quotes with authority]

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  • David Herbert Lawrence We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Karl Popper We may admit that our groping is often inspired, but we must be on our guard against the belief, however deeply felt, that our inspiration carries any authority, divine or otherwise.
    Karl Popper
    Austrian-British philosopher and professor (1902 - 1994)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?
    Source: A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Anita Hill What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Audre Lorde What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority.
    Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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  • Sir Alfred Jules Ayer While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.
    Sir Alfred Jules Ayer
    English philosopher (1910 - 1989)
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  • Benjamin Hoadly Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.
    Source: Sermon before the King of England, 31 March 1717
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  • Ambrose Bierce Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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