Quotations
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Apparently, the fact that you needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know was known, therefore those that needed to advise and inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt the information he needed as to whether to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not, at that time, known or needed.
View quotes by Derek Fowlds
Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
View quotes by Erich Fromm
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
View quotes by D H Lawrence
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
View quotes by Marlene Dietrich
Destiny - A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce
We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
View quotes by F E Smith (first Earl Of Birkenhead)
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
View quotes by A J Ayer
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
View quotes by Thomas Huxley
Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.
View quotes by William Penn
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
View quotes by Michel Foucault
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
View quotes by Hannah Arendt
Authority forgets a dying king.
View quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.
View quotes by Ronald Reagan
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
View quotes by Thomas Szasz
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
View quotes by Euripides
Authority is never without hate.
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
View quotes by Franklin D Roosevelt
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
View quotes by William Hazlitt
I'm disrespectful towards authority. Like I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.
View quotes by Michael O'Leary
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.
View quotes by Keith Richards
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