#authority

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#authority #bow #down #how #i

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#arrangement #authority #cia #classified #could

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to. ↗

— William Temple

#authority #been #bred #confirmed #custom

Authority forgets a dying king. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#dying #forgets #king

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection. ↗

— Terence

#authority #better #established #firmer #force

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter. ↗

— Paul Bailey

#artistic #authority #blanche #comes #compelled

But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in my vocabulary expressed deeper hatred than the word INTERFERENCE. But Christianity placed at the centre what then seemed to me a transcendental Interferer. If its picture were true then no sort of 'treaty with reality' could ever be possible. There was no region even in the innermost depth of one's soul (nay, there least of all) which one could surround with a barbed wire fence and guard with a notice No Admittance. And that was what I wanted; some area, however small, of which I could say to all other beings, 'This is my business and mine only. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #god #individualism #morality #business

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#marriage #marriage

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by accepting any proposals of reconciliation that might be offered them by their Fathers – to their farther trial of their noble independence however they never were exposed. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #love-and-friendship #marriage #parents #satire

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble. ↗

— Stuart Symington

#avoided #been #characteristic #giving #his