Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Albert Einstein

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Arthur Rimbaud

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

Arthur Rimbaud

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Knowledge is a social construct, a consensus among the members of a community of knowledgeable peers.

Collaborative Learning: Higher Education, Interdependence, and the Authority of Knowledge

Write every day. Even if it's only a letter.

The Creative Writing Coursebook: Forty Authors Share Advice and Exercises for Fiction and Poetry

When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams come true.

10 Alone

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

The beauty of Goodreads is that you know you’re sowing in a field where everyone, by definition and self-selection, loves to read.

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. How to Publish a Book

There is no such thing as lack of time, only unclear priorities and lack of motivation. It is better to abandon a project than to work on it half-heartedly for a protracted period of time.

The Author's Blueprint

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

The Art of Listening

Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy.

The Age of Napoleon

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

Obedience to Authority

Avoid the RTP Syndrome. When you rush to Publish, you rush to mistakes and chaos. Guaranteed.

Snappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Writers

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Texas Gothic

Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Anyone without a sense of humor is too pretentious to be a good magician.

The Secret Life of a Satanist: The Authorized Biography of Anton LaVey

The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities.

Susana Martinez

As a preacher who is fully human, and clearly not divine, I can't speak as Jesus did. But I do seek to speak truth that carries weight and authority. All of us who preach the gospel aspire to speak under the authority of Jesus.

John Ortberg

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

Rudy Giuliani

I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it e...

Moshe Safdie