We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation… — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
We are to yield to the authority God has in place, and look to Him to find out what He would have… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority),… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If you look to lead, invest at least 40% of your time managing yourself - your ethics, character, principles, purpose, motivation, and… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Your action defines your authority. Be honest to your action, be honest to your commitment, act with transparency, no one will challenge… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority.… — Benjamin Netanyahu Copy Share Image
I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet… — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them,… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The most important things that any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ever does in this world are:… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute… — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
[I]t is contrary to the economy of God for any member of the Church, or any one, to receive instruction for those… — Sam Smith Copy Share Image
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, catastrophes or scandalous disclosures always have to happen before humanity realises that it is only its own mistakes that have led… — Viktor Schauberger Copy Share Image
The vast majority of Muslims would never accept the lawfulness of an active homosexual lifestyle. I don't see that happening. But there… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
“Take responsibility—it’s where your powers live.” — Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey Copy Share Image
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness. — William Penn Copy Share Image
I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it. — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
Jorge Luis Borges had the soapbox and the authority to complain about this myopic understanding of the duty of Latin American writers,… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We dream of an India where development is the result of all Chief Ministers, the Prime Minister, state Ministers, Union Ministers working… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
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