“meaning and authority. For no matter what our will says, we can always make it say something else.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost. — Kim Young-sam Copy Share Image
As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority. — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“if the belief or practice is ancient, foreign, and preferably Eastern, it has immediate authority and wisdom.” — Karen Stollznow Copy Share Image
Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity. — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
“For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God” (Rom. 13:1). God” — Kevin J. Vanhoozer Copy Share Image
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense,… — Stuart Symington Copy Share Image
Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
Remarriage is or is not approved in shastra; I have no authority to speak on this subject. But I surely cannot go… — Totaram Sanadhya Copy Share Image
People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers… — Gerrit Smith Copy Share Image
The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority.… — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in… — Robert Bellarmine Copy Share Image
Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
With 450,000 U. S. troops now in Vietnam, it is time that Congress decided whether or not to declare a state of… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image