Famous Quotes
203 Quotations with Authority.
- 121. Juvenal: The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, sin ...
- 122. Ralph Waldo Emerson: The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
- 123. Charles Caleb Colton: The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which ...
- 124. Lionel Trilling: The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware ...
- 125. Wyndham Lewis: The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all ...
- 126. William Hazlitt: The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ...
- 127. Aeschylus: The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
- 128. George Washington: The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscrimi ...
- 129. Plato: The wisest have the most authority.
- 130. Nadine Gordimer: There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
- 131. Oscar Wilde: There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equ ...
- 132. Henry David Thoreau: There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to ...
- 133. Malcolm S. Forbes: Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising ...
- 134. Ernest Renan: To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in ...
- 135. Alfred Jules Ayer: To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for mora ...
- 136. Maurice Blanchot: To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since ...
- 137. D. H. Lawrence: We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
- 138. Ihab Hassan: We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to ...
- 139. Henry David Thoreau: We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and ...
- 140. Charles Horton Cooley: When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of ...