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• A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

  Thomas Szasz

  Education, Teacher, Retirement

  'The Second Sin' (1973) 'Education'

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• God is the King. In him exists all legal authority

  Orson Pratt

  Kings

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.11, Latter-day Strength

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• Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Respect, Self, Order

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• His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

  John Stott

  Giving, Choices, Heaven

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• We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Generations, Literature

  "Selected Literary Criticism".

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• Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

  William Shakespeare

  Patient, Be Patient, Wells

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.25

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• The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

  Orson Pratt

  Government, Order, Kingdoms

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”, p.21

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• Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

  John Roberts

  Taxation, Levels, Cannons

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• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  Oscar Wilde

  Monarchs

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.62, Oscar Wilde

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• I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

  John Engler

  Constitution

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• Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

  Norm Dicks

  Years, Aggravation, Design

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• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  Edith Sitwell

  Taken, Fire, Discipline

  Edith Sitwell's remarks on converting to Roman Catholicism at the age of 67, in news reports, August 15, 1955.

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• I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Mean, People, Hierarchy

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• One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun

  Elmer Davis

  America, Done, Fields

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• After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Islamic, Terror Attacks, Government

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• Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

  Antony Jay

  Responsibility, Decision, Matter

  Antony Jay (2009). “How to Run a Meeting”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

  Lee Greenwood

  America, Higher

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• Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Dog, Office

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

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• Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Strong, Power, Rights

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• No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Fellow Man, Natural

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry John Tozer, Derek Matravers (1997). “The Social Contract”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Luck, Havens

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Love & Marriage”

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• Authority forgets a dying king.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Kings, Dying

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 289

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• 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.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Age, Ambitious

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• He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thinking, Progress, Literature

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels”, p.6

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• Think for yourself and question authority.

  Timothy Leary

  Love, Life, Spiritual

  Timothy Leary's track on Audio album "Sound Bites from the Counter Culture", 1989.

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