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Here are the quotes with the word authority in them. 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. — Hannah Arendt Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. — Henri Frederic Amiel At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. — Seamus Heaney

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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.

-Hannah Arendt

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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

-Henri Frederic Amiel

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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

-Seamus Heaney

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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off the belief it inspires is what counts.

-Philip Roth

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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.

-Ronald Reagan

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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

-Bruno Bettelheim

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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

-Walter Benjamin

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Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

-Norm Dicks

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Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

-Rutherford B. Hayes

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But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

-Charles de Secondat

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Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and feel-good fluff. The difference is that people aren't watching.

-Rob Sheffield

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I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

-Gail Simmons

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Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

-Ambrose Bierce

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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

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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

-Richard Dawkins

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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 Huxley

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I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

-Jimmy Carter

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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

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In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.

-Nicolas Malebranche

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Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

-Maureen Dowd

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Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

-Emile M. Cioran

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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

-Vita Sackville West

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We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

-Gray Davis

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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

-Alex Kapranos

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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. — Hannah Arendt
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. — Henri Frederic Amiel
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. — Seamus Heaney

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