Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a… — Bill Whittle Copy Share Image
I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
There are ways to speak that can transform things, which has less to do with authority but is more about resourcefulness and… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it… — Lorna Goodison Copy Share Image
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The absence of men in the household has caused people to not know how to respond to authority with respect. There's a… — Alveda King Copy Share Image
In the end, God is the God of all authorities. He's the highest authority and He loves you and He can totally… — Lacey Sturm Copy Share Image
Not only Southern children - but adults as well - use the preface ma'am or sir when speaking to someone older or… — Tinsley Mortimer Copy Share Image
“This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
I think knowing you're not alone is important. This generation is already better at standing up for themselves, saying, "No! You're not… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
It is important for the apologist who desires to be obedient to the Word of God in defending the faith to pay… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
If you look at the New York Times, it says X; if you look at the Washington Post, it says the same… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Gandhi held no formal position of authority. Nor was there an organized army standing behind him. What he did have were his… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people. — Henry Seymour Conway Copy Share Image
Muhammad divided the world in two sectors. One he called Dar us Salam (House of Peace) and the other, Dar al Harb… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Reject all given authority. Believe nothing, accept no one's words because they're meaningless. Do not listen to anyone. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
A little more patience, a little more charity for all, a little more devotion, a little more love; with less bowing down… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old.… — Martin Niemoller Copy Share Image
All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
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