Divine Authority

Famous quotes containing the words divine and/or authority:

“Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.”
—Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

“For words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)