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There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one's defense must itself be accountable to that standard. ↗


— John M. Frame


#christianity #logic #religion #the-bible #truth

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man! ↗


— Rebecca McKinsey


#elders #parents #respect #royalty #respect

... I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese; I would have to take care of it myself. This would be safer and also consistent with my own responsibility. The latter is the anarch’s ultimate authority. ↗


— Ernst Jünger


#authority #self-responsibility #anarchism

The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as a neutral power vis-à-vis state and society. He may like, dislike, or be indifferent to whatever occurs in them. That is what determines his conduct; he invests no emotional values. ↗


— Ernst Jünger


#anarchism #authority #state #anarchism

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse. ↗


— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley


#authority #between #converse #ever #her

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. ↗


— John Adams


#because #character #corrupts #demands #importance

The man whose authority is recent is always stern. ↗


— Aeschylus


#authority #man #recent #stern #whose

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. ↗


— Lord Acton


#authority #before #both #country #deny

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. ↗


— Mikhail Bakunin


#any #authority #consequently #even #faith

It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America. ↗


— John Abizaid


#america #authority #blame #currently #important






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