Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the… — H. Rap Brown Copy Share Image
It is a fundamental principle that every institution must be accountable to an authority which is independent of that institution. Yet somehow,… — Prashant Bhushan Copy Share Image
As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general… — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking.… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Essentially, it is the director who is the creative head of a film. The final authority on all decisions lies with the… — Aamir Khan 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
Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“...that kind of skeptical questioning, don't accept what authority tells you -attitude of science- is also nearly identical to the attitude of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
The biblical framework limits the authority of each institution to its specific jurisdiction. The church does not have the right to meddle… — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs… — Joe Slovo 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
The adolescent frequently supposes that she is breaking out of the confines of her mundane, schoolgirl existence simply in order to break… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order,… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Folks, we're starting to learn more and more about that man arrested in the New York SUV car bombing case. His name… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you… — Susan Powter Copy Share Image
Dissent... is a right essential to any concept of the dignity and freedom of the individual; it is essential to the search… — Norman Thomas Copy Share Image
The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told… — John Oliver Copy Share Image
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed… — Noel Tichy Copy Share Image
The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their… — Alexander Hamilton 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
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
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
Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
