Auctoritas Quotes

#1. potestas is specific, auctoritas is extendable and can grow.

Michael Oakeshott

#2. Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

Pankaj Mishra

#3. While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. Memorable among the Saxon warriors were Hengist and his wife (? or horse), Horsa. Hengist made himself King in the South. Thus Hengist was the first English King and his wife (or horse), Horsa, the first English Queen (or horse).

W.C. Sellar

#5. The heart that knows God can find God anywhere.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#6. I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
was the best all-around player. Joe
was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.

Willie Mays

#7. When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.
[Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

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