“Authority is a responsible form of power; it should be given to responsible man.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
It is scripture alone, not conservative Evangelical tradition or any other human authority, that must function as the normative authority for the… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as… — Mark Hertsgaard Copy Share Image
I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and… — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they… — Charles Spurgeon 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
However awful the storm of my disappointment, it's a response that belongs to me. It's my heart, after all. My territory, my… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The United States has never prioritized or failed to pay any obligation when due during a debt limit impasse. Despite the institutional… — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
As soon as we get comfortable in one role, we have to take on another! Why? ... Because he wants to keep… — Walter Wykes Copy Share Image
If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
When people say you can and can't say things, I don't know who's the authority on it. As long as you're kind,… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
In the past, the British had signally failed to build an effective structure of royal authority and administration in their American colonies.… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Over the past 7 years, we've tried to modernize the economy, and today what we're doing is modernizing the financial services industry,… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Government officials have no right to interfere in ecclesiastical matters in a way that undermines or disregards the God-given authority of pastors… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time, any too great a claim that one is in control of what one… — Harold Brodkey Copy Share Image
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought… — John Green Copy Share Image