“Moral authority is earned, not given. This is why formal authorities are threatened by moral authorities without position.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Emotional maturity is ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished; to endure unpleasantness, discomfort, and… — Edward Adam Strecker Copy Share Image
We begin the process of being born again through exercising faith in Christ, repenting of our sins, and being baptized by immersion… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular… — Fred Edwords Copy Share Image
It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
In democracies, we aren't always governed by the people or the parties that we voted for. But when officials are elected, we… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The Trump Administration wants to unilaterally do away with the states' rights protections in the Clean Air Act. But the authority given… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
When I make a song, I actually literally talk to one person on purpose... I don't focus on, are people in Chicago… — Too Short Copy Share Image
While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image