I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself.… — Hal Holbrook Copy Share Image
Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Spiritual science attempts to speak about non-sensory things in the same way that the natural sciences speak about sense-perceptible things...No one can… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Amazon is now the definitive source for data about whole sets of products - fungible consumer products. EBay is the authoritative source… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
As I see it, only God can be all-powerful without danger, because his wisdom and justice are always equal to his power.… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
With all the new media outlets out there, with all the noise, a voice of authority and calm like Vogue becomes more… — Anna Wintour Copy Share Image
“Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them." "They do. You just can't see… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that… — Anita Hill Copy Share Image
I think that the authority of Scripture must be accepted by Catholics and Protestants, and that if our doctrinal judgments are not… — Matthew Levering Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
New York is a tale of two cities. You have the gilded city and the other city, and the core of the… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or… — Justin Kaplan Copy Share Image
The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that… — John Stott Copy Share Image
If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: My purpose is not to put Congress in charge of state elections. That's the opposite of what I… — Bill Hagerty Copy Share Image
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of… — Lawrence Kohlberg Copy Share Image
As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
“We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of knowing Jesus Christ personally and directly.” — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“And the Vatican, whatever anyone else might have thought on the subject, answered, like Hebrew National hot dogs, to "a higher authority.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image