Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Attention
  • Authority

• The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • War
  • Control
  • Authority

• Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Moral
  • Authority
  • Lot

• Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Authority
  • Issue
  • Defending

• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Authority
  • Ethics
  • Concern

• God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Author
  • Authority

• There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Authority
  • Dictatorship
  • Betrayed

• Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Act
  • Bottom
  • Downhill

• Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Important
  • Accepted
  • Downhill

• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Government
  • Artist

• A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.

  

  Frank Muir
  • Golf
  • White
  • Ball

• Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Law
  • Passion

• Authority is no source for Truth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Truth
  • Authority
  • Source

• Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Truth
  • Enemy
  • Belief

• Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.

  

  Socrates
  • People
  • Young
  • Authority

• Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Authority
  • Understood
  • Posthumous

• Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

  

  William James
  • Science
  • Authority
  • Accounts

• To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

  

  William Penn
  • Religion
  • Authority
  • Conviction

• There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit none for its sons who do not believe by inspiration. Nor does it injure reason or custom, or debar them of their proper force; on the contrary, it directs us to open our minds by the proofs of the former, and to confirm our minds by the authority of the latter.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Force
  • Authority
  • Christianity

• The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

  

  Sherrod Brown
  • President
  • Authority
  • Phones

• Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Poetry
  • Hardest

• Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.

  

  Esther Perel
  • People
  • Helping
  • Persons

• This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Authority
  • Bishops
  • Razors