Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
quote by Lord Acton
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Authority Song
They like to get you in a compromising position
They like to get you there and smille in your face
They think, theyre so cute when they got you in that condition
Well I think, its a total disgrace
Chorus:
I fight authority, authority always wins
I fight authority, authority always wins
I been doing it, since I was a young kid
Ive come out grinnin
I fight authority, authority always wins
So I call up my preacher
I say: gimme strenght for round 5
He said: you dont need no strength, you need to grow up, son
I said: growing up leads to growing old and then to dying,
And dying to me dont sound like all that much fun
Chorus:
I fight authority, authority always wins
I fight authority, authority always wins
I been doing it, since I was a young kid
Ive come out grinnin
I fight authority, authority always wins
I fight authority, authority always wins
I fight authority, authority always wins
I been doing it, since I was a young kid
Ive come out grinnin
I fight authority, authority always wins
Oh no
Oh no
I fight authority, authority always wins
Chorus:
I fight authority, authority always wins
I fight authority, authority always wins
I been doing it, since I was a young kid
Ive come out grinnin
I fight authority, authority always wins
I fight authority, authority always wins
I fight authority, authority always wins
I been doing it, since I was a young kid
Ive come out grinnin
I fight authority, authority always wins
song performed by by John Mellencamp
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There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
quote by Van Wyck Brooks
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I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
quote by Kenneth Robert Livingstone
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When autumn arrives
When autumn arrives
Leaves fall
The tree looks lonely
Loses its beauty
Unable to do anything
Against nature’s
Authority
Life faces the same agony
Old age reduces
Strength and energy
Everybody starts
Seeing end of life’s journey
Wrinkles appear
Senses slowly disappear
Helplessness is visible
Support becomes essential
Every soul keeps thinking
When shall god
Exercise his authority
And
End the journey
Turns life into memory
poem by Nirantar Dr.Rajendra Tela
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Note the difference between a right and a privilege. A right, in the abstract, is a fact; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never. Privilege, in the abstract, does not exist; there is no such thing. Rights recognized, privilege is destroyed. But, in the practical, the moment you admit a supreme authority, you have denied rights. Practically the supremacy has all the rights, and no matter what the human race possesses, it does so merely at the caprice of that authority.
quote by Voltairine de Cleyre
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To Seize Authority
To seize authority is to exclaim statements
Too winning and sinning on the lending people;
Their praise is fortunate from the top and cruel
Into the night, this night may conquer disappointments.
My warm friends are in this point of life
Where the influence comes from the sentence,
It coincides with pleasure, anything guidance,
Forming wounds that entail the wife.
My friendship ends with cruelty and strictures,
The authority of brotherhood is non-foolish,
Like medals and shields that accomplish,
Without the need to reply, even in pictures.
poem by Naveed Akram
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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
quote by Herbert Read
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To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
quote by Albert Einstein
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I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
quote by Tupac Shakur
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
quote by Hal Holbrook
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We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.
quote by James Hillman
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Who May Open Sealed Books?
Who can know
understand
the vast weight
of history
prophecy
stretching back
into remote
epochs of time?
Who can know
understand
interpret
implications
sealed into
God’s holy
word sealed
unto end time?
None can
understand
what is sealed
until God
gives authority
enlightenment
at God’s
appointed time.
No man no
prophet
has authority
until God
gives prophet
authority
enlightenment
at appointed time.
No man no
Angel of God
has authority
to open any
sealed books
to know any
decisions of God
until appointed.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
quote by Vita Sackville-West
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If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.
quote by Leonardo da Vinci
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His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
quote by John Stott
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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.
quote by Mikhail Bakunin
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We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
quote by Mahmoud Abbas
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They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
quote by Golda Meir
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The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
quote by Benjamin Tucker
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