“The lesson I learned is that when you give someone authority, you must be conscious you are doing so and continue to… — Margie Warrell Copy Share Image
It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you achieve a voice that will be heard, you should use it to speak up for the voiceless and oppressed. If… — Craig Murray Copy Share Image
But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something I have "authority" on is animal rights. If I were not already so deep into the path I've taken, deep in… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
People who use LSD today know how to use it. Therefore, I hope that the health authorities will get the insight that… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
If the modern spirit, whatever that may be, is disinclined towards taking the Lord's word at its face value (as I hear… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM (from the Gr. , and , contrary to authority), the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Well-established Supreme Court precedents indicate that states - like the states of Washington and Minnesota - have no equal-protection rights of their… — David B. Rivkin Copy Share Image
Imagine if we started raising generations of children who stood uncompromisingl y on the Word of God, knew how to defend the… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the… — Arjuna Ardagh Copy Share Image
In constructing our narratives, we identify which particular events or experiences were formative or transformative. In telling our stories, we also claim… — Peg O'Connor Copy Share Image
Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There may be babblers, wholly ignorant of mathematics, who dare to condemn my hypothesis, upon the authority of some part of the… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and… — Leon Panetta Copy Share Image
All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
Ultimately the success of any nonproliferation strategy requires a universal standard. Washington's "Do as I say, not as I do" approach lacks… — David Cortright Copy Share Image
We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it… — Sy Safransky Copy Share Image
When I made my first trip to Israel as a member of Congress, not only did I meet with the Israeli president… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image