“Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.” HandsAuthorityCapableNot SureSufficientSecretaryUnlimitedCautionComrade Author:Vladimir Lenin
“Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can ever deny others the right to ignore the supersensible, but there is never any legitimate reason for people to declare themselves authorities, not only on what they themselves are capable of knowing, but also on what they suppose cannot be known by any other human being.” PeopleWayHumansReasonSpiritualSpeakNaturalHuman BeingsKnownKnowingAuthorityCapableDenyIdealismSensoryNatural Science Author:Rudolf Steiner
“The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.” ThinkingMenBelieveReasonAuthorityCapableMajority Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“I know that in a poem, even when the speaker is speaking from the poet's experience, there's always something that's borrowed, some authority that sits outside of the poet that the poem has claimed. There's a dramatic pitch that makes the speaker capable of saying something more courageous or stranger or simply other than what the poet would be able to say.” KnowsWould BeAblePoetAuthorityCapableStrangerDramaticCourageousSpeakersBorrowed Author:Tracy K. Smith
“Ed Lawler and I document that the key to creating good, productive jobs in all industries is to organize work processes and systems in ways that allow employees to contribute significant amounts of "added value" to the products they make and services they provide. When mangers give employees the organizational structure, resources, and authority needed for them to contribute their ideas and efforts, American workers, like those at Harley-Davidson, almost always prove capable of effectively competing against their overseas counterparts.” GivingValuesEffortProveAuthorityCapableSignificantEmployeeProductiveOrganizeCompetingOrganizational Author:James O'Toole
“In my view, the Western model of influencing the development of third world countries is doomed to failure. The West does not understand how to deal with states that no longer have any authority and are threatened by dissolution. Their efforts failed in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. They are simply not capable of promoting the indigenous economy. Many billions of dollars flooded into Afghanistan, but without any significant effect.” WorldCountryEffortEconomyInfluenceAuthorityCapableWesternSignificantAfghanistanIndigenous Author:Ahmed Rashid
“Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who, when they commit evil, do so by shielding themselves in the authority of others, in their subordination, or in the excuse of following orders. And even worse are those who believe they are justified by their God.” MenBelieveOrderEvilWorstAuthorityCapableFollowingExcuseCommitGood And EvilJustifiedSubordinationFollowing Orders Author:Arturo Pérez-Reverte
“As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this arise the crude and subtle forms of snobbishness and the worship of authority. Thus we become more and more externalized and inwardly empty. The more externalized we are, the more sensations and distractions there must be, and this gives rise to a mind that is never quiet, that is not capable of deep search and discovery.” ThinkingKnowsGivingMindFormQuietAuthorityWorshipCapableDiscoveryConcernedEmptyAriseSubtleGossipSensationsDistractionAnxiousCrudeDeep SeaSnobbishness Book:Commentaries on Living 2 Source: Commentaries on Living 2