A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“Jesus doesn't come asking if He can hang out with us. He commands us to follow Him. He has total authority and… — Justin Buzzard Copy Share Image
The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at… — Marquis de Lafayette Copy Share Image
Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The… — Anita DeFrantz Copy Share Image
So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I didn't really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn't present for or a participant in… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I didn't really fit with other kids. I had problems in school all my life and problems with authority. But my parents… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all… — Lauryn Hill Copy Share Image
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
This government has been informed that a Jewish state has been proclaimed in Palestine, and recognition has been requested by the provisional… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
“He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake… — Adrian McKinty Copy Share Image
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
![“[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.” quote by Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/4be/steve-jobs-307_authority_in-school-i-encountered-authority-of-a-d_2121767.jpg)
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