Famous quotes containing the words human, authority and/or power:
“That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light, is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie,—an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)