#authority

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #authority




Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.


Oscar Wilde


#resistance

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.


Bohumil Hrabal


#books #brains #sleep #underwear #authority

NO reader has ANY obligation to an author, whether it be to leave a review or to write a "constructive" one. I put out a product. You are consumers of that product. Since when does that mean you have to kiss my ass? Hey, I like Pop-Tarts and eat them a few times a year; since when does that mean I'm obligated to support Kellogg's in any way except legally purchasing the Pop-Tarts before I eat them? I wasn't aware that purchasing and consuming a product meant I was under some sort of fucking thrall in which I'm only allowed to either praise the Pop-Tart (which to be honest isn't hard, especially the S'mores flavor) or, if I am going to criticize a flavor, offer a specific and detailed analysis as to why, phrased in as inoffensive and gentle a manner as possible so as not to upset the gentle people at Kellogg's.


Stacia Kane


#reviews #authority

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote.


Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


#power #experience

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.


Wilfred Burchett


#being #bluff #camp #come #commanders

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.


Michael Cunningham


#must #opening #our #readers #sentence

There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.


Gavyn Davies


#am #authority #bbc #british #chairman

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.


Albert Einstein


#behind #believe #concern #consider #ethics

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.


Ralph Fiennes


#between #eat #especially #heard #need

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.


Malcolm Forbes


#enjoy #exercising #get #like #lose