Authority Quotes - Page 8

• It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

  Thomas Hobbes

  Law, Justice, Practicing Law

  Thomas Hobbes, Alan Cromartie, Quentin Skinner (2005). “Thomas Hobbes: Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right: A Dialogue Between a Philosopher and a Student, of the Common Laws of England. Questions Relative to Hereditary Right”, p.10, Oxford University Press

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• To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

  Mark Twain

  Graduation, Party, Power

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.169, Univ of California Press

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• Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Men, Essence

  William Shakespeare, N. W. Bawcutt (1998). “Measure for Measure”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

  Georges Danton

  Revolution, Scoundrels, Remains

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• The highest duty is to respect authority.

  Bill Vaughan

  Duty, Highest

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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.

  Hannah Arendt

  Religious, Political, One Day

  "Crises of the Republic". Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: "Civil Disobedience", 1972.

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• I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Grew Up, Grew

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• A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

  Frank A. Clark

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• I've always had trouble with authority.

  John Milius

  Trouble

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. May 7, 2003.

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• The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

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• In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Peace, Powerful, War

  "Summa Theologica". Book by Thomas Aquinas (Part II-II, Question 40, Article 1, pp. 1359-1360), 1485.

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• I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Age, World, Remember

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• As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Common, Study, Results

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• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

  Zebulon Pike

  Father, Over You, Former

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1966). “Journals, with Letters and Related Documents”

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• It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

  Gerrit Smith

  Success, Slavery, Causes

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• I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

  William J. Clinton

  Life, Believe, America

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• It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

  Phil Angelides

  New York, Important, Moral

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• I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

  Alan Thicke

  Care, Honeymoon, Thirds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Writing, Done, Solemnity

  "The Rolling Stones". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1952.

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• The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Sin, Blind

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2006). “Huxley's Autobiography and Essays”, p.176, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.

  Dalai Lama

  Want, Finals, Rebirth

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• Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

  Federica Montseny

  Remains

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• For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Kings, Government, Over You

  Jonathan MAYHEW (1750). “A Discourse [on Rom. xiii. 1-8] concerning unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers: with some reflections on the resistance made to King Charles I., and on the anniversary of his death, etc”, p.55

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• Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

  Ralph Steadman

  Games, Differences, Evil

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• The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

  Marie de France

  Fashion, Past, Stories

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.115, Xist Publishing

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