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#authority

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #authority




If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.


Keith Richards


#both #feet #going #kick #might

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.


Vita Sackville-West


#doubt #every #face #fear #rarely

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.


Lech Walesa


#chosen #must #respected #wisely

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.


John Wycliffe


#authority #church #consequently #exercise #existence

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.


Patti Digh


#change #life #make-a-change #open-mindedness #rules

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#education #age

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.


Criss Jami


#authority #beast #boldness #conquering #courage

When the pope sits on the chamber pot to shit, does he believe in his own infallibility? Does not every imposter occasionally recognize his own hairy, homely humanity? Perhaps not; worn long enough, sometimes the Mask of Authority becomes the man. Even looking in a mirror, he will see the sacred Mask and not his own ordinary human face.


Robert Anton Wilson


#home

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.


Rosemary Clement-Moore


#politeness #family

You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.


Astrid Lindgren


#etiquette #humor #humor






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