"Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller."

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"Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller."

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"The disciplined rule our world."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Your expertise can elevate your impressions to bring you to an entirely new realm."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Tyrants have only one problem in life.They simply just wanna rule everything."

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"Knowledge imparts a sense of authority. It will help you stand out and give you an edge over your competition."

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"God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God's righteousness."

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"To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster."

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"It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"For a trial is initiated not to render justice but to annihilate the defendant.Even when the trial is of dead people, the point is to kill them off a second time: by burning their books; by removing their names from the schoolbooks; by demolishing their monuments; by rechristening the streets that bore their names."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller."

Authority,

"If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react."

America, Countries, Europe, Spain

"There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists."

World,

"Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia."

Russia, Spain, Will

"Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times."

Constancy, Democracy, Madness, Old

"We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel."

Blind, Revolution, Theory

"The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight."

People, Fight

"I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals."

Ideal, Ideals, Old

"In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain."

Sacrifice, People, Development, Aspirations

"We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory."

God, Hell