Famous Quotes
203 Quotations with Authority.
- 61. W. H. Auden: America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to ...
- 62. John Kenneth Galbraith: An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positi ...
- 63. Leonardo da Vinci: Anyone who debates by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence -- he ...
- 64. Leonardo da Vinci: Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but ...
- 65. William Shakespeare: Art made tongue-tied by authority.
- 66. Lord Alfred Tennyson: Authority forgets a dying king.
- 67. Marcus Annaeus Seneca: Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
- 68. P. J. O'Rourke: Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All throug ...
- 69. Robert Lindner: Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive ...
- 70. Euripides: Authority is never without hate.
- 71. Erich Fromm: Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property o ...
- 72. Herman Kahn: Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's pers ...
- 73. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
- 74. Anne Bradstreet: Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise th ...
- 75. Jacob Bronowski: By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of cours ...
- 76. Jean Baudrillard: Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense ...
- 77. Walter Benjamin: Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed h ...
- 78. Ambrose Bierce: Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
- 79. Mikhail Bakunin: Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of ...
- 80. Simone Weil: Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a s ...