If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
There is an inherent tendency in all governmental power to recognize no restraints on its operation and to extend the sphere of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership.... I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone...thought the… — William H. McRaven Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority. — Kevyn Aucoin Copy Share Image
But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I think of myself as unconventional, I guess. I maybe always had a problem with authority, like a stubbornness about what's expected… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
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