An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress has been reluctant to… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
“The practice of assuming authority figures know best what one needs, for example, is a mark of someone whose self-esteem is vulnerable.” — Marsha Sinetar Copy Share Image
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with… — Gail Simmons Copy Share Image
For thousands of years, humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to get people to respond,… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgment, wisdom, personal… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“But herein also lies an irony, for there is more than one kind of power and one kind of authority. The power… — Thomas Talbott Copy Share Image
At one time,' Golenishchev continued, either not observing or not willing to observe that both Anna and Vronsky wanted to speak, 'at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
There are two things that are suited to humble the souls of men, and they are, first, a due consideration of God,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is… — Al Capone Copy Share Image
“You must never be limited by external authority, whether it be vested in a church, man, or book. It is your right… — Bhagat Singh Thind Copy Share Image
And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far… — Phil Dourado Copy Share Image
What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside… If I had the… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything… — David Hunt Copy Share Image
Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies…Fiction is democratic, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Authority doesn't have to be concentrated in me when I'm hiring outstanding professionals who know their jobs. I will be there if… — Kathy Hochul Copy Share Image
Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
“It’s being someone who trusts her inner authority, and doesn’t look outside herself for validation and/or approval. It’s being someone who uses… — Lisa Lister Copy Share Image
Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“WORK RULES…FOR BUILDING A GREAT CULTURE Think of your work as a calling, with a mission that matters. Give people slightly more… — Laszlo Bock Copy Share Image
“Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.” — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies… — Chris Carter Copy Share Image
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The… — Don Bluth Copy Share Image
