The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and… — Ethan A. Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Even if I'd wanted to work at Goldman Sachs, they weren't going to hire me, because I was saying things like, 'That's… — Mark Pincus Copy Share Image
To be a son or daughter of God also means you are royalty. This is the greatest of privileges, but it is… — Heidi Baker Copy Share Image
Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed… — Phyllis Bennis Copy Share Image
I'm not the authority on the subject. I'm a middle-aged white guy speaking about racism. I'm just finding it a really difficult… — Gareth Southgate Copy Share Image
“We know from accounts of Rilke's life that his stay in Rodin's workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
I see the future of China as growth. I think that historically China has often gone through periods of consolidation, and then… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing… — Jesse L. Greenstein Copy Share Image
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in… — John Abizaid Copy Share Image
The problem with religious doctrine, as with politics, because of its ability to give people authority, it has a tendency to attract… — Tobias Forge Copy Share Image
I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When the Turkish authorities gave the orders for these deportations, they were merely giving the death warrant to a whole race; they… — Henry Morgenthau, Sr Copy Share Image
In other words, when you have someone [like Ridley Scott] with that authority, then you tend to be left alone. But they… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image