#thor

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. ↗

— John Acton

#assurance #authority #believes #custom #doing

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#appears #authors #best #burn #drink

Brendan stopped reading. The words had melted into a liquid blur...In his possession was a box full of information that would likely fill in the gaps and help him to wrap his brain around the whys of her death. And yet, there was really only one question that mattered, and Tommy had already answered it. ↗

— Lynda Meyers

#books #brendan #letters-from-the-ledge #lftl #lynda-meyers

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

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#allow #another #authorities #earth #next

There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#any #author #authors #challenge #difficult

My biggest accomplishment has been making a transition from athlete to author. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#athlete #author #been #biggest #making

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

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition. ↗

— John Acton

#absolute power #authority #based #between #choices

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#existing #gains #imagine #journey #leaders