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#authority

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #authority




They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.


Daryl Gates


#authority #certain #circumstances #freedom #freedom from

Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.


Shakti Gawain


#because #deferring #doing #feel #first

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.


Shakti Gawain


#authority #away #consistently #distrust #give

I've never been any good with authority.


Rupert Everett


#authority #been #good #i #never

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.


Bill Gaede


#gaede #god #mathematics #peer #physics

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!


Joseph Heller


#authority #conservatism #conservatives #military #right-wingers

... 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






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