goodwill quotes

• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. (Joseph Addison) [heavy/perversion/goodwill]
• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. (Hannah Arendt) [goodwill/phenomenon/day]
• Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much. (Francis Bacon) [goodwill/more/power]
• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. (Walter Benjamin) [death/goodwill/death]
• In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things. (Edmund Burke) [weakness/goodwill/willpower/time]
• Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions. (Marcus Cicero) [power/goodwill]
• Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth. (Marcus Cicero) [age/age/goodwill/more]
• The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. (Denis Diderot) [right/form/goodwill/right]
• If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence. (Albert Einstein) [goodwill/society/being/find]
• The faith that stands on authority is not faith. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [faith/goodwill/faith]
• Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [honesty/luxury/goodwill]
• Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. (Michel Foucault) [conscience/more/goodwill]
• An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [antidote/democracy/goodwill/service]
• There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. (Nadine Gordimer) [goodwill]
• Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority. (David Hume) [people/contempt/goodwill/attention]
• They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority. (Samuel Johnson) [state/willpower/goodwill]
• If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [anxiety/goodwill/fashion/right]
• The wisest have the most authority. ( Plato) [goodwill]
• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. (Ernest Renan) [age/position/goodwill]
• Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. ( Seneca) [goodwill]
• Art made tongue-tied by authority. (William Shakespeare) [art/goodwill]
• It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God. (Henry David Thoreau) [god/countries/goodwill/mankind]
• He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience. (Henry David Thoreau) [goodwill/science/men/account]
• The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible. (George Washington) [cities/time/goodwill]
• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. (Oscar Wilde) [goodwill]
• In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge. (Esai Morales) [order/goodwill/matter/face]
• I just feel like that's a young person's game. It's partly because you spend your whole time mocking authority figures, and once you reach the age where you could be a general or a bishop or a politician, it means something different. It stops being the kid in class doing impressions of the teacher. (Hugh Laurie) [time/goodwill/reach/age]
• I was rebellious as a child. Very much so. It was something to do with authority that I didn't cotton to very well. (Diane Cilento) [child/goodwill]
• Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. (Ambrose Bierce) [goodwill/crime/excuse]
• I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority. (Michael Baden) [problem/death/goodwill]

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