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Letter "T" » The Authority
«The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared. Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?»
Author: Federico Fellini
(Film Director)
| Keywords:
charisma, cinema, commanded, directed, disappeared, dreamt, hypnotic, in the public eye, one thousand, public eye, The Authority, The Image, The Long Dark, The Public Eye
«Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
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accords, An Age, examination, exempted, exemption, grounds, lay claim, legislation, regarded, sacredness, subjected, The Authority, tribunal
«The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.»
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
(Lawyer, Orator, Scholar, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Authority,
Education,
Learning,
Obstacles,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
obstacle, The Authority
«Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
Aristotle, Cicero, counters, reckon, The Authority, Thomas, whatsoever
«Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men»
«The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| About:
Authority
| Keywords:
dependent, dependent on, imperil, imperiled, imperils, legitimacy, lest, myth, sound judgment, The Authority, The Myth, tied
«The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.»
Author: Gloria Steinem
(Activist, Writer)
| Keywords:
authority, citizen, governing, institution, skin, The Authority
«We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist»
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