Human Authority Power

Famous quotes containing the words human, authority and/or power:

    The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do.
    Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

    Society in general do not like originality, especially in woman, as it looks like defying man’s authority for a woman to prefer her own methods to accepting those laid down for the majority.
    Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)

    The imagination is man’s power over nature.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)