I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it... There can be no… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of… — Cody Lundin Copy Share Image
I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And… — Jimmy Kimmel Copy Share Image
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities face the complicated task of stabilising and reviving a devastated economy after years of regional conflicts,… — Stanley Fischer Copy Share Image
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
We study the glory of God, and the honour and liberty of parliament, for which we unanimously fight, without seeking our own… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
LSD is no longer playing a bad role in the drug scene and psychiatrists are again trying to submit their proposals for… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
I do identify the escape hatch through which Foucault eludes the charge that he himself is an author/authority, hence a tyrant. He… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to… — James A.C. Brown Copy Share Image
The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few… — Ed Crane Copy Share Image
All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
“Be the one whose Lord is Jesus and who takes His words as a final authority without any thought of controversy. True… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
With "marriage," the word gets applied to same-sex marriages by proponents and opponents alike. That means the word itself is changing, and… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
We can learn a great deal from whales. It is the same lesson we can learn from our close genetic relatives, the… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
The Chinese central government will slowly and steadily lose authority while regional armies [gain power]. The Western powers are going to take… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing. — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
It's basically a home-rule issue. I think the governing authority that appoints people as assessors certainly has reasons for doing it. ...… — John Scott Copy Share Image
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
“Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.” — Jurgen Appelo Copy Share Image
The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard… — June Allyson Copy Share Image
I don't walk into a room with an authoritative stance. I tend to be a little more submissive, even though I think… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Bricks will be most serviceable if made two years before using; for they cannot dry thoroughly in less time. When fresh undried… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. — Leigh Steinberg Copy Share Image
“Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
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