The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out… — Randy Lerner Copy Share Image
If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, and the ENCRYPT Act sends a clear message that the complicated… — Ted Lieu Copy Share Image
“A woman can only satisfy and fulfil herself, I understood, when she establishes her own authority, and see beyond equality, realising how… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government… — Kumar Mangalam Birla Copy Share Image
“The authority of God's Word is not an arbitrary, external authority. It is a wooing and conquering authority. Scripture's authority does not… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
We do believe the current Ukrainian authorities are illegitimate. They cannot be legitimate as they do not have a national mandate for… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country… — Hassan Rouhani Copy Share Image
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
George Orwell was right. There's no greater genius as far as I'm concerned in terms of understanding human nature. I think that… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past… — William Redington Hewlett Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact that he fathered ten children, Dickens, the write, never gave up his position as a child. He identified with… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the… — Virgil Copy Share Image
The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes… — John McDonnell Copy Share Image
I say I'm not a control freak and I don't like to be in charge. But on the other hand, I really… — Maura Tierney Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I've been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts,… — Alberto Gonzales Copy Share Image
Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
What's the trick to writing a good bad guy? Well, for me, it's always been the idea that you pit yourself against… — Brian Azzarello Copy Share Image
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions.… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the… — Aristide Briand Copy Share Image
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and… — Ralph Steadman Copy Share Image
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending… — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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