#authority

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#arabs #authority #compatriots #east #including

If you want to check someone's principles, give him authority .. Then have a seat & watch ↗

— أحمد عمارة

#life-lessons #principles #life

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#authority #chastise #elders #generations #old

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord." "It might to keep it open. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#diplomacy #fear #power #men

Prophets borrow the omniscience of God to speak with the insolence of angels. But we are only impressed with their authority when they talk to us humbly, as men of inferior rank. ↗

— Bauvard

#authority #god #prophets #men

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#learn #obstacle #often #teach #those

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#conformity #fool #foolishness #law #rule

What an author doesn't know could fill a book. ↗

— Holly Black

#books #knowledge #authority

Chastity—the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions, he added parenthetically, out of Remy de Gourmont. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#perversion #sex #authority

There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#disappointment #epigrams #fandom #on-writing #similes