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• Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

  Chief Joseph

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Lawyer

• In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sa.

  Niccolò Machiavelli

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Authority, Law And Lawyers

• It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Topics in Justice, Wisdom

  Tags in Authority, Law

• The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England.

  John Stuart Mill

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Authority, Liberty, Struggle

• American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Authority, Ignorant, Poorest, Places

• The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.

  Gloria Steinem

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity/Individuality, Authority, Freedom

• Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

  William Penn

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Ought, Servants, Sweetness, Wife

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Blame

• Authority forgets a dying king.

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Authority, Forgets

• I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Most, Believe

• Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Authority, Great, Every, Rejection

• The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Authority, Highest, Faith, Refuses

• What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

  Anita Hill

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Authority, Understanding

• My reason, it’s true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn’t rule them so much as tyrannize them.

  Pierre Corneille

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Repression, Tyrannize, Controls, Rule, Feelings

• The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment… not authority.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Observation, Ultimate

• There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Moral

• The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Stands, Faith

• He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson of statecraft.

  James Russell Lowell

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Authority, Security

• Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Writers And Writing, Army

• One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Authority, Write, Happen, School