I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority. — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary… — Julius Wellhausen Copy Share Image
When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self. — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If… — Caroline Baum Copy Share Image
I would say to bishops, and to all men in authority, we should have an interest in carrying on this work. We… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
Understand that all battles are waged on an unconscious level before they are begun on the conscious one, and this battle is… — Teresa Stover Copy Share Image
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“Within you is a fountain of wisdom. And you sell yourself short every time you allow some authority to define your limitations… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling… — Barbara Madsen Copy Share Image
It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated. — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine… — William M. Evarts Copy Share Image
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
There can be no more reliable authority on earth than God's Word, the Bible. This timeless, trustworthy source of truth holds the… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their… — Jackson Katz Copy Share Image
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together,… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It's very like being in close proximity… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself)… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book like any other. It makes a claim that God spoke and speaks through its message. It… — Darrell Bock Copy Share Image
The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have. — Nikki Bella Copy Share Image
Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority. — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
