#authority

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

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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

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I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality. ↗

— Tom Petty

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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise. ↗

— Tacitus

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Those men want to take Laurence from me, and put him in prison, and execute him, and I will not let them, ever, and I do not care if Laurence tells me not to squash you," he added, fiercely, to Lord Barham. — Temeraire ↗

— Naomi Novik

#humor #humor

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right to a hearing by the value of what they say, and not by virtue of who is saying it. Today, authority has to earn respect by the intrinsic value of what it says, not by the force of its imposition. ↗

— Richard Holloway

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A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#story #writing #authority

The authority is not granted you to deny the return of the king! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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