You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You… — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi grabbed full power for himself. Not even the pharaohs had so much authority, to say nothing of his… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
... all progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority ... without the huge… — Margaret Benson Copy Share Image
I was an ordinary boy at school, a young man. In fact, what did the headmaster once say? "You're constantly challenging those… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
"There can be no power without mystery. There must always be a 'something' which others cannot altogether fathom, which puzzles them, stirs… — Charles De Gaulle Copy Share Image
Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set,… — Dava Sobel Copy Share Image
Our Father in Heaven loves all of His children and desires that they know and understand His plan of happiness. Therefore, He… — Carol F. McConkie Copy Share Image
There are very few voices that can speak with any kind of authority or credibility on what happened back during the time… — Eric Bischoff Copy Share Image
Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The federal government began investigating allegations of fraud against the Coalition Provisional Authority, a U.S. contractor accused in a bid-rigging operation involving… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
The 'nations,' as they are called, with whom our pretended ambassadors, secretaries, presidents, and senators profess to make treaties, are as much… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've said this when I pass the trade promotion authority law, which allows us to get trade agreements. If we write the… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
When I first collected these authorities, I was desirous that every quotation should be useful to some other end than the illustration… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Say did you read in the papers about a bunch of Women up in British Columbia as a protest against high taxes,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his.… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape … have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid,… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
By citing the UN Charter I indicate that the defensive party to the conflict should use only proportionate force, try to avoid… — Bhikkhu Bodhi Copy Share Image
The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but in the nature of their relationship to… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
This democracy... The elections in Iraq were held despite the American opposition. It was the will of the Iraqi people and the… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Copy Share Image
Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or… — Jean Liedloff Copy Share Image
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
[E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
The Bible is not considered an accurate, absolute, authoritative, or authoritarian source but a book to be experienced and one experience can… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists,… — Serge Lang Copy Share Image
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