Howard Bloom (1943) American publicist and author
Source: Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century (2000), Ch.9 The Conformity Police
“Absolute authority will be delegated. Full responsibility will be assumed. Those who succeed will receive advancement and satisfaction of desire. Those who fail will die.”
— E. E. Smith, book Triplanetary
All-Highest of Eddore, book 3, chapter 17.
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“Those who believe they speak with the absolute authority of Allah demand absolute submission.”
Reza Pahlavi (1960) Last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran
Statement by Reza Pahlavi of Iran - Democracy & Security Conference http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?article=108&page=4, Prague, Czech Republic, Jun. 5, 2007. <br class="br">Speeches, 2007 <br class="br">Context: To the realpolitik cynics who say Islamist theocracy is a reality we have to live with, I respond: funny – they never said they can live with YOU! To those who say the theocrats can reform if we are nice to them, I say you do not know the difference between Islamist revolution and secular ones. Those who believe they speak with the absolute authority of Allah demand absolute submission.
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(J. Hudson Taylor. Separation and Service: Or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. London: Morgan & Scott, n.d., 41-42).
Albert Nolan (1934) South African priest and activist
Source: Jesus Before Christianity: The Gospel of Liberation (1976), p. 57.
“History is full of the accounts of those who imposed their absolute power against popular will.”
Mubarak Ali (1941) Historian, activist, scholar
What History Tells Us, p. 8
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“Those who rebel advance, not those who obey.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Avanza chi si ribella, non chi obbedisce.
Source: prevale.net
“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
L. Neil Smith (1946) American writer
Zero Aggression Principle ("ZAP"), from "Who is a Libertarian?"
Variant: A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.
“Blessed is trust, for it blesses both those who have it to give and those who receive it.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 29.
“The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman