#authority

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#because #lender #nature #ninety #percent

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. ↗

— Euripides

#authority #faces #more #new #new faces

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#aware #been #culture #function #high

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#much #nothing #silence #strengthens

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#appealing #argument #authority #conducts #his

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father. ↗

— Toby Young

#classic #difficult #down #father #find

I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not. ↗

— Bob Graham

#against #apply #authority #colleagues #could

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#because #direction #good #i #marine

After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power. ↗

— Sheikh Hasina

#attacks #authority #cases #few #government