Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed… — Noel Tichy Copy Share Image
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _______ (substitute… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
For if I should not believe all that is written by Historians, of the glorious acts of Alexander, or Caesar; I do… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
When a parliamentary or social majority decrees that it is legal, at least under certain conditions, to kill unborn human life, is… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Isn't the essential pillar of Catholicism papal infallibility? Well, then how can the church ever change its mind about anything unless God… — Dave Foley Copy Share Image
The intelligence services would probably be in a better position to make an assessment of the advancement of the Iranian nuclear program… — Trita Parsi Copy Share Image
Every man who truly loves a woman, and every woman who truly loves a man, hopes and dreams that their companionship will… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
What are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Fidel Castro was not interested in personal enrichment. His supporters say he deployed his enormous authority on behalf of health, education and… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you… — Susan Powter Copy Share Image
Folks, we're starting to learn more and more about that man arrested in the New York SUV car bombing case. His name… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order,… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental principle that every institution must be accountable to an authority which is independent of that institution. Yet somehow,… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
Essentially, it is the director who is the creative head of a film. The final authority on all decisions lies with the… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
