I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England… — Judd Gregg Copy Share Image
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
I gave him my hard stare. “You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?” A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
The beauty of our democracy is that the final authority is not the president of the United States, but instead the American… — Lee Zeldin Copy Share Image
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You may obey a leader who has power and authority, but you will not strive to serve her or the cause of… — Dan B. Allender Copy Share Image
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. — Keith O'Brien Copy Share Image
Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman.… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it. — Mort Walker Copy Share Image