To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
California is among several states that already have fought their way out from under partisan gerrymandering by taking line-drawing authority away from… — Eric Swalwell Copy Share Image
“Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents' speech as heard by the child.” — John Broadbent Copy Share Image
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
The man who can face vilification and disgrace, who can stand up against the popular current, even against his friends and his… — Alexander Berkman Copy Share Image
A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities,… — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What gets called 'the sixties' left a mixed legacy and a lot of divides. But it opened everything to question, and what… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The church doctrines of obedience to authority, repentance, fear of punishment, self-abnegation, acceptance of outer direction rather than inner assurance, elevation of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
“what goals drive all institutions of authority. “Doing something wrong,” in the eyes of such institutions, encompasses far more than illegal acts,… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC… — Mary Bono Copy Share Image
A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything. — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority. — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
If you're using comedy to shame people for getting informed and questioning authority, you're not doing comedy, you're doing propaganda, 'cause comedy… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face… — Frank I. Cobb Copy Share Image
I always said I would vote for a resolution that gave the president the leverage to go to the United Nations, and… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is by the Lord's stripes that we are healed, and it is through our own stripes that we, too, are given… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a… — Herbert Schiller Copy Share Image
If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
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