Famous quotes containing the words human, authority and/or power:
“the thin, long human frame
Upside down in its own strange joy,”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power’s disappearance.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)