Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness… — May Sinclair Copy Share Image
Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you see someone taking responsibility, give that person authority. If you see someone looking for authority, watch out! — Loren Cunningham Copy Share Image
On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am very pro-union and very anti-authority by nature, so by showing the housekeepers and valets, I was being loyal to those… — Jacob Tomsky Copy Share Image
We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom. — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority. — John Wooden Copy Share Image
We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life. — Yitzhak Rabin Copy Share Image
All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives,… — Joshua A. Norton Copy Share Image
Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For the Second Amendment to do its job, the other side must become much better informed. I watched an action-adventure program last… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
...mediocre people find their way into positions of authority...because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
When I'm around authority, I still feel like I'm 14 or 15 years old. — Kyle Chandler Copy Share Image
