Victoria Bond quotes

"True expertise is the most potent form of authority."
-- Victoria Bond

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I thought about the difference between a mama's girl and a daddy's girl. I decided that a daughter who belongs to her daddy expects gifts, while a daughter who belongs to her mama expects a lot more. Not from her mama. From herself.
-- Victoria Bond

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But it would be absolutely mistaken to regard a wealth of theoretical knowledge as characteristic proof for the qualities and abilities of a leader.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.

By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,

We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.

You have to work with what you are given, even in Shakespeare. we have our form and it is important that we free ourselves through it.

There cannot be any communication except through form. If there is no form, you cannot create emotion in the spectator.

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .