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28 quotesThe man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Power
Aeschylus
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Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Destiny
Ambrose Bierce
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish.
Authority
Anne Bradstreet
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Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
Congress
Marcus T. Cicero
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Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
Authority
Leonardo Da Vinci
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Faith
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Authority is never without hate.
Authority
Euripides
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
Conscience
Michel Foucault
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Authority
Charles De Gaulle
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
Sacrifice
Nadine Gordimer
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Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Power
Thomas C. Haliburton
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
Authority
Grant Hill
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Knowledge
Thomas H. Huxley
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
Generations
D. H. Lawrence
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Authority
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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The wisest have the most authority.
Wisdom
Plato
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
Management
Ronald Reagan
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Authority
Hans Reichenbach
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How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority!
Minorities
Leonard H. Robbins
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Kindness out of season destroys authority.
Kindness
Sandi
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Power
Seneca
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Art made tongue-tied by authority.
Censorship
William Shakespeare
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man, proud man,Dressd in a little brief authority,
Uncategorised
William Shakespeare
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
Body
Gloria Steinem
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Authority forgets a dying king.
Death and Dying
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun