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“The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.”

Action Pay Authority Consequence Enormous

“Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed and deeply internalized. These central conceptions may refer to a god or gods, the 'votes of the majority,' the 'will of the people,' the 'aristocracy of talents or wealth,' to the 'divine right of kings' or to the alleged extraordinary endowment of the person of the ruler himself.”

“[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.”

Men Values Activity Authority Consequence Males Prestige

Author:Margaret Mead

“Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both literally and metaphorically must be denounced in the strongest possible terms? It would seem so.”

World Seems Father Term Imagination Authority Consequence Innocent Strongest Confrontation Primal Semblance Brazen Displeasure

Author:Michael Leunig

“Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.”

Way Accepting Willing Demand Authority Conscience Consequence Penalties Disobedience Civil Disobedience

Author:Joseph Wood Krutch

“It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.”

Authority Consequence Unhappiness Propositions Controversy

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.”

Source: English Secularism: A Confession of Belief

“The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as was widely interpreted. It was instead a consequence of a very serious government failure, in particular a failure in the monetary authorities to do what they'd initially been set up to do.”

Government Results Policy Particular Serious Authority Consequence Monetary Great Depression Monetary Policy

Author:Milton Friedman

“The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.”

Men Individual He Man Authority Consequence Affair

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.”

World Simple Authority Consequence Assuming Realization Competence American Life Good Faith

Author:Chris Hayes

“I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have to do that and there are consequences when you don't. But I also think that there will be a box score, and there will be that one negative, and then there will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.”

People Thinking Important Shows Young President Records Authority Consequence Negative Abuse Boxes Score Truthful

Author:William J. Clinton

“The fact that you have a policy of such consequence directly affecting millions of people and you have a legal question of great consequence about the scope of the president's authority to act in implementing the immigration laws in this way and you have a one-line decision from the court affirming by an equally-divided court, it's an inevitable consequence of where we are.”

People Way Facts Law President Lines Decision Millions Policy Authority Consequence Court Immigration Inevitable Divided Scope Affirming One Line Implementing Immigration Laws

Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.

“There's a lot of important issues being brought to the world about America's role in proliferating weapons, about the lack of responsibility of anyone in authority in this country, you have the torture program, that NSA surveillance is Edward Snowden's fault, just like proliferation of weapons is these kids' fault. It's ridiculous, there's never any consequences, there's never any lessons learned.”

“The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand the contradictions and the difficulties of the socialist development of an isolated country, the higher will it appreciate the results achieved. The less it identifies the fundamental methods of Socialism with the zigzags and errors of the Soviet bureaucracy, the less will be the danger that, by the inevitable revelation of these errors and of their consequences, the authority, not only of the present ruling group, but of the workers' State itself, may decline.”

“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.”

Leadership Responsibility Psychology Authority Ethics Consequence Obedience Reaching Submission Disappearance Sense Of Responsibility Authority And Responsibility Obedience To Authority

Book:Obedience to Authority

Source: Obedience to Authority

“The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away with, it is needless to say, but numerous scapegoats are made of the less politically powerful, to satisfy the egalitarian rage awakened.”

Made Done Today Suffering Powerful Authority Consequence Advantage Privilege Equality Rage Awakened Scapegoat

Book:Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

Source: Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose

“To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.”

Government Effects Policy Objects Authority Consequence Debt Inevitable Permanent Patriotic Federal Government Public Service Appropriation

Book:Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk

Source: Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk

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