#author

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect. ↗

— Bruno Bettelheim

#best #enhances #given #make #may

Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#arrive #authority #congress #diplomacy #encouraging

The lot of the bride to be wed before bed desired until rotten. The lot of the author to be read before bed admired then forgotten. ↗

— Roman Payne

#authors #brides #desire #funny #humor

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#authority #because #democracy #failure #hands

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#author #character #consistent #drew #ever

When I'm around authority, I still feel like I'm 14 or 15 years old. ↗

— Kyle Chandler

#authority #feel #i #like #old

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#author #bad #good #hero #novel

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#because #instantly #name #offer #peculiar

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#case #dad #else #family #his

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China. ↗

— Nick Lampson

#authoritarian #beacon #cannot #china #democracy