By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause.… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority… — Karen Nussbaum Copy Share Image
People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives… — Mr. T Copy Share Image
Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge,… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid,… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
This democracy... The elections in Iraq were held despite the American opposition. It was the will of the Iraqi people and the… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
In Northern Estonia, the Soviet authorities didn't have a recipe on how to fight against the popularity of Finnish TV. Audiences didn't… — Jaak Kilmi Copy Share Image
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — Plato Copy Share Image
We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration… — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead Copy Share Image
The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in it, and to tell the world… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I believe that if Israel were to put an end to the settlements in the West Bank tomorrow, as it did in… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Enjoin what is good and forbid what is evil before the worst amongst you are given authority over you and then when… — Uthman ibn Affan Copy Share Image
A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and… — Susana Martinez Copy Share Image
We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as… — Horace Copy Share Image
I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
The pith of conversation does not consist in exhibiting your own superior knowledge on matters of small consequence, but in enlarging, improving… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we… — Susan Stebbing Copy Share Image
Whatever situation you are in, right now, take the authority of Jesus and begin to command that devil out of your life!… — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
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