#authority

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#appealing #argument #authority #conducts #his

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#great #i #i think #modes #people

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad #equally #mob #monarch #necessity

I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not. ↗

— Bob Graham

#against #apply #authority #colleagues #could

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#because #direction #good #i #marine

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political. ↗

— Ignazio Silone

#artistic #authority #doubting #even #experimenting

No authority is higher than reality. ↗

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#higher #reality #than

The wisest have the most authority. ↗

— Plato

#most #wisest

Worship is Political Science 101. In every worship service, the Christian ekklesia is renewed in her unique story and language, her unique political experience and vocation. Every worship service is a challenge to Caesar, because every Lord's Day we bow to a Man on the throne of heaven, to whom even great Caesar must bow. O'Donovan claims that all political order rests on a people's homage to authority, which is to say, on an act of worship. Every Lord's Day, the Church is reconstituted as a polity whose obedience is owed to Christ, and we are taught to name Jesus as King of kings and Lord of lords. ↗

— Peter J. Leithart

#experience

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#ax #bruise #edge #fitter #heavy