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«Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.»
Author: Richard Sennett | About: Authority | Keywords: inherently
«Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt»
Author: Robert Lindner | About: Authority | Keywords: rarely, skeptic, skeptics, The Face of, The Skeptic
«A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.»
Author: Frank A. Clark | About: Authority | Keywords: guessed
«A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.»
Author: Pearl Bailey (Entertainer) | About: Authority | Keywords: crown
«Authority forgets a dying king»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson | About: Authority
«Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci (Architect, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor) | About: Authority, Memory | Keywords: discussion, relies, uses
«Authority is quite degrading»
Author: Oscar Wilde (Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet) | About: Authority | Keywords: degrading
«Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain: By this the fool commands the wise, The noble-with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make t»
Author: Samuel Butler | About: Authority | Keywords: assumes, commands, complies, complying, cowards, fume, fumes, giddy, intoxicates, invade, magistrates, sot, sots, The Base
«Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.»
Author: Seneca | About: Authority | Keywords: duration, founded, injustice
«All authority belongs to the people»
Author: Thomas Jefferson (Author, President) | About: Authority | Keywords: authority, belongs
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