I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority. — Albert Meltzer Copy Share Image
The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you. — John Bevere Copy Share Image
I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly… — Miroslav Volf Copy Share Image
The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp.… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority. — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
