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Authority
«The single most important thing that anyone can do in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, with the right authority.»
«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»
Author: Hannah Arendy
| About:
Authority,
Civilization
| Keywords:
accounted, decade, defiance, established, event, last decade, outstanding, phenomenon, secular, social event, wide
«The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government.»
«There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority and control ? your mind and your mouth»
«The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
Authority,
Ideas,
Money
| Keywords:
endeavoring, insolence, substitute
«The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Authority,
Education,
Learning,
Obstacles,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
obstacle, The Authority
«The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Authority
| Keywords:
dependent, dependent on, imperil, imperiled, imperils, legitimacy, lest, myth, sound judgment, The Authority, The Myth, tied
«The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.»
«The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Authority
| Keywords:
accidental, coeval, confounded, Laws of nature, prescriptions, procured, the laws of nature, veneration, with reason