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31. “Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.”
Orson Scott Card
Understanding, Deception, Authority, Truth, Perception, Youth Vs Adults
32. “Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.” Orson Scott Card Citizenship, Childhood, Freedom, Authority, Duty, Personal Exploration
40. “You have accused me of upsetting order by my free drinks, and I have showed you that there is a more dreadful fermentation in the Sermon on the Mount than in my beer-barrels. Christ thought it in the irresponsibility of His omnipotence.” William Butler Yeats Order And Fermentation, Sermon’s Power, Free Drinks Debate, Authority, Religion, Provocation
47. “Miss Caroline was no more than twenty-one. She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. She boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinson’s upstairs front room, and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days.” Harper Lee First Impressions, Youthful Authority, Appearance, Impressions, Authority
57. “And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper accustomed to be obeyed or to strike.” Robert Louis Stevenson Sailor Command, Authority Leadership, Obedience Appearance, Authority, Sailor, Leadership
58. “Do you call that a head on your shoulders, or a blessed dead-eye?” cried Long John. “Don’t rightly know, don’t you! Perhaps you don’t happen to rightly know who you was speaking to, perhaps? Come, now, what was he jawing – v’yages, cap’ns, ships? Pipe up! What was it?” “We.” Robert Louis Stevenson Identity, Confusion, Self-awareness, Interaction, Authority, Self-expression
59. “A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman’s powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination.” Joseph Campbell Priesthood, Shamanism, Spiritual Power, Ritual, Personal Experience, Authority
Authority Quotes by Famous Authors
31. “Ender understood more than she said. Manipulation of gravity was one thing; deception by the officers was another; but the most important message was this: the adults are the enemy, not the other armies. They do not tell us the truth.”
Orson Scott Card Understanding, Deception, Authority, Truth, Perception, Youth Vs Adults
32. “Before we are citizens, he thought, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty. I have done my duty. I have bowed to authority. Mostly. And now, like Russia, I can set aside those burdens for a little while and see what happens.”
Orson Scott Card Citizenship, Childhood, Freedom, Authority, Duty, Personal Exploration
40. “You have accused me of upsetting order by my free drinks, and I have showed you that there is a more dreadful fermentation in the Sermon on the Mount than in my beer-barrels. Christ thought it in the irresponsibility of His omnipotence.”
William Butler Yeats Order And Fermentation, Sermon’s Power, Free Drinks Debate, Authority, Religion, Provocation
47. “Miss Caroline was no more than twenty-one. She had bright auburn hair, pink cheeks, and wore crimson fingernail polish. She also wore high-heeled pumps and a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop. She boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinson’s upstairs front room, and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days.”
Harper Lee First Impressions, Youthful Authority, Appearance, Impressions, Authority
57. “And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper accustomed to be obeyed or to strike.”
Robert Louis Stevenson Sailor Command, Authority Leadership, Obedience Appearance, Authority, Sailor, Leadership
58. “Do you call that a head on your shoulders, or a blessed dead-eye?” cried Long John. “Don’t rightly know, don’t you! Perhaps you don’t happen to rightly know who you was speaking to, perhaps? Come, now, what was he jawing – v’yages, cap’ns, ships? Pipe up! What was it?” “We.”
Robert Louis Stevenson Identity, Confusion, Self-awareness, Interaction, Authority, Self-expression
59. “A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is devoted is a deity that was there before he came along. But the shaman’s powers are symbolized in his own familiars, deities of his own personal experience. His authority comes out of a psychological experience, not a social ordination.”
Joseph Campbell Priesthood, Shamanism, Spiritual Power, Ritual, Personal Experience, Authority
