Anarchism is in reality the ideal of political and social science, and also the ideal of religion. It is the ideal to… — R. Heber Newton Copy Share Image
My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that… — Scott Pruitt Copy Share Image
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority. — Morris Raphael Cohen Copy Share Image
“Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace” — Aaron Sorkin Copy Share Image
I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president. — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Do not believe anything on the mere authority of teachers or priests. Accept as true and as the guide to your life… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Before Gutenberg, there was this really very strong oral storytelling culture where being able to relay stories from person to person was… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the… — D. A. Carson 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
When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Everyone in Iran is perceived to be a child with a paternal authority vested in the Guardian Council and the Sufi elders.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism. — David Tracy Copy Share Image