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"Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority is to give happiness to others, even to those who are guilty of doing wrong."
"God indeed has given the earth under to the control of man."
"The one, who likes to have an 'underhand', will inevitably come across a 'boss'!"
"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."
"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
Explore more quotes by Barbara Tuchman
"Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land."
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."
"The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke."
"A reformer exhorted children that they would succeed where he and his colleagues had failed with the charge: "Live for that better day."
"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
"The limitation prompting folly " was an attitude of superiority so dense as to be impenetrable."
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