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“Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don't look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.”

Looks Book Turns Parent Rich Students Mountain Authority Enlightenment Concern Neglected Assertion Campus Parental Hysterical Transgression Parental Authority

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.”

Want Giving Turns President Information Authority Vices Assistants Vice President Blanche

Author:Joe Biden

“Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.”

Wisdom Turns Politics Justice Economy Authority Injustice Prosperity Beast Liberalism

Book:The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)

Source: The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, Volume I: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.”

Character Turns Belief Religious Virtue Atheism Source Authority Endure Obedience Consistent Admiration Piety Religious Belief Obedience To Authority

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.”

World Way Looks Ends Christian Turns Answers Honor Authority Conscience Loyalty Faithful Tyrants Covenant

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.”

Self Turns Practice Authority Agency Conformity Conventional Sooner Or Later Bureaucracy Autonomous Perpetuating Strongholds

Author:Ada Louise Huxtable

“Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.”

Political Turns Struggle Authority Advantage Structure Employee Dissent Pointless Discouraging Top Down

Author:Gary Hamel

“The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.”

People Book War Problem Light Spiritual Order Turns Atheism Military Authority Positive Atheism Revelations Secular Theological Book Of Revelation

Author:H. L. Mencken

“There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.”