Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out… — Stuart Chase Copy Share Image
I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion - the only… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps… — Louis Caldera Copy Share Image
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
“The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses ... the authorization to… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those in positions of scientific authority in the West who have collaborated with this new Lysenkoism because they felt they must be… — Peter Ferrara Copy Share Image
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
…being an atheist required discipline very like that of being Catholic. One could never yield to the idea of a supernatural authority,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Protestants and Catholics have historically disagreed on the canon of the Old Testament but agreed on the canon of the New Testament.… — Craig Blomberg Copy Share Image
It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the… — Dan Barker Copy Share Image
Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information;… — Frank P. Ramsey Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people feel like you need to have a very specialized understanding of music to have the authority to talk about it.… — Henry Jackman Copy Share Image
The House of Commons has the undoubted rights to expel members for misconduct. This is an absolute authority which cannot be challenged… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
I am against war, against violence, against violent revolution, for peaceful settlement of differences, for nonviolent but nevertheless radical changes. Change is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists,… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
“The truth is, one who seeks to achieve freedom by petitioning those in power to give it to him has already failed,… — Larken Rose Copy Share Image
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The source of irrational authority, on the other hand, is always power over people. This power can be physical or mental, it… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Searching for money, what are you really searching? You are searching power, you are searching strength. Searching for prestige, political authority, what… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We do not worship the Prophet. We worship God our Eternal Father and the risen Lord Jesus Christ. But we acknowledge the… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Before any man can be considered as a member of civil society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor… — James Monroe Copy Share Image
Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We mean business, George Bush, ... and we're going to go to Congress and we're going to ask them, 'How many more… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
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