Patrick O'Brian Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Exercise, Eggs, Doe

  Patrick O'Brian (1990). “Post Captain (Vol. Book 2) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)”, p.234, W. W. Norton & Company

• Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch.Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Husband, Father, Men

• I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Men, Long, Authority

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