"Authority doesn’t work without prestige, or prestige without distance." ― Charles de Gaulle Topic(s): Work More From Charles de Gaulle "You’ll live. Only the best get killed." "In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?" "Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first." More In Work "I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it’s up to me."― Brad Pitt "The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day’s work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words."― J. K. Rowling "It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."― Thomas Hobbes