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Letter "A" » Authority
«Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.»
«[I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.»
Author: Daniel Webster
(Orator, Senator, Statesman)
| About:
Authority,
Constitution,
Justice,
Politics,
Religion
| Keywords:
injunction, injunctions, instruction, posterity, recklessly, reject, religious instruction, Rules of, sudden, The Rules, trifle, violate
«He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft»
«Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.»
«He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Authority,
Reason
| Keywords:
argument, command, establishes, noise, shows
«Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.»
Author: Peter F. Drucker
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Authority,
Leadership,
Management,
Solution,
Speech
| Keywords:
attributes, attributing, defined, liked, Speeches
«Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| About:
Authority,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
rejection, rejections, The Absolute
«Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the big bombsYou that hide behind wallsYou that hide behind desksI just want you to knowI can see through your masks»
«Great men in judicial places will never want authority»
«He who has no bread has no authority»
Author: Turkish Proverb
| About:
Authority
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