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Tag Name "Authority" (1334)

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Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.
John J. Geddes
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Authority is not power that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.
Herman Kahn
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Vladimir Lenin
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Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.
Richard Sennett
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Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.
Jacques Maritain
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Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
James Dobson
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Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.
James Hunter
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Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.
Plutarch
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Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
Alan Moore
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Authority is quite degrading.
Oscar Wilde
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
Seneca the Younger
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Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.
Lech Walesa
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Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed
Joe Strummer
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Authority that is not confirmed by true reason seems weak. Whereas true reason does not need to be confirmed by any authority.
Johannes Scotus Eriugena
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Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.
Andy Stanley
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
Lord Acton
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Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man they only reveal him
Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Authority is never without hate.
Euripides
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Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.
Rob Payne
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Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.
James Hunter
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Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
William P. Young
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Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.
Alan Moore
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Authority is granted to people who are perceived as authoring their own words, their own actions, their own lives, rather than playing a scripted role at great remove from their own hearts.
Parker J. Palmer
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Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of the hierarchical order and so provides for the unity of imperative control.
Shoshana Zuboff
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