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In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.


Lincoln Kirstein


#absolute freedom #anarchy #anxious #aristocratic #authority

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.


Mary Wollstonecraft


#authority #being #cannot #obeys #rational

One of them is a very familiar personage. Her name is “Mother Church.” She is, in many ways, an admirable and dedicated person, deeply concerned about her children, endlessly and tirelessly careful for every detail of their welfare. Her long experience has taught her to understand her family very well. She knows their capabilities and she knows their weakness even better. She is patient and imperturbable, quite unshockable (she has witnessed all of the considerable range of human wickedness in her time) and there are no lengths to which she ill not go to educate her family. She has a huge fund of stories, maxims and advice, all of them time-tested, and usually interesting as well. She is very talented, skilled din creating a beautiful home for her children; she can show them how to enrich their lives with the glory of music and art. And there is no doubt that she loves God, and wishes to guide her children according to his will. On the other hand, she is extremely inclined to feel that her will and God's are identical. In her eyes there can be no better, no other, way than hers. If she is unshockable, she is frequently cynical. She is shrewd, with a thoroughly earthy and often humorous shrewdness. She knows her children's limitations so well that she will not allow them to outgrow them. She will lie and cheat if she feels it is necessary to keep her charges safe; she uses her authority 'for their own good' but if it seems to be questioned she is ruthless in suppressing revolt. She is hugely self-satisfied, and her judgement, while experienced, is often insensitive and therefore cruel. She is suspicious of eccentricity and new ideas, since her own are so clearly effective, and non-conformists get a rough time, though after they are dead she often feels differently about them. This is Mother Church, a crude, domineering, violent, loving, deceitful, compassionate old lady, a person to whom one cannot be indifferent, whom may one may love much and yet fight against, whom one may hate and yet respect.


Rosemary Haughton


#catholic #church #institution #art

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.


Mustafa Kemal Atatürk


#inspirational #nation #inspirational

I cannot stand authority.


Mikhail Baryshnikov


#cannot #i #stand

Your book is a springboard and integral strategic part of your overall game plan. Being an author positions you strongly upon your platform. It is the passport which will start you on your journey to becoming the recognized authority in the niche or space that you work in or aspire to work in.


Kytka Hilmar-Jezek


#book-power #book-strategy #platform #write-a-book #niche

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.


Lactantius


#authority #because #believed #come #fiction

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.


Dalai Lama


#analysis #authority #critical #individual #must

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.


Dalai Lama


#desire #nothing #responsibility #shirk #wish

One thing I want to make clear, as far as my own rebirth is concerned, the final authority is myself and no one else, and obviously not China's Communists.


Dalai Lama


#authority #china #clear #communists #concerned






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