The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else. — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach. — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
If one is okay with police having guns - whoever is designated as having authority - but panicked at the thought of… — Frank J. Fleming Copy Share Image
As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view,… — Byron White Copy Share Image
America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power. — Anohni Copy Share Image
First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office. — James Hillman Copy Share Image
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“What is samkit (enlightened view; right belief)? One has to realize the complete authoritative power, and accept everyone’s worldly authority. People abuse… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was no opposition organized against Bela Kun. Like Lenin he surrounded himself with commissaries having absolute authority. of the 32 principle… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
We need new proactive policies that focus directly on how authorities in the public and private sphere can blend economic and social… — Juan Somavia Copy Share Image
Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
How can I be expected to believe that this same racial discrimination which has been the cause of so much injustice and… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Nor can We predict happier times for religion and government from the plans of those who desire vehemently to separate the Church… — Pope Gregory XVI Copy Share Image
“So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts. — Antonio Negri Copy Share Image
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and… — William Temple Copy Share Image
“When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?” — Red Tash Copy Share Image
Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers. — Bernard Law Montgomery Copy Share Image
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
