Natural Authority Quotes

I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

That's not to say Eddie's never done anything malicious. But he never grabbed power for power's sake. His position was gained only because he has that energy, and that's naturally where he ended up.

What a lot of people don't understand is, you can't really do nothing for power - you're either born with it or you aren't.

Some of the finest Shakespeare has been done recently by college theater programs. I'll tell you what these young kids have: They have a natural authority in Shakespeare. They feel a right to do it. And once they honor the humanity of it, the rhythm of the verse comes with it.

You cannot be an educator or a teacher without relating to children with full insight. Their urge to imitate has been transformed into a receptivity based on a natural and uncontested relationship of authority, and you must take this into account in the broadest possible sense.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.

. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery, and which are destined to spread over the northern part of that whole quarter of the globe, are a great point gained in favor of the rights of mankind.

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime.

In America nature is autocratic, saying, "I am not arguing, I am telling you.