We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The… — Anita DeFrantz Copy Share Image
The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank,… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
Many small towns I know in Maine are as tight-knit and interdependent as those I associate with rural communities in India or… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final. — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Ed Lawler and I document that the key to creating good, productive jobs in all industries is to organize work processes and… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want… — Yaphet Kotto Copy Share Image
If I go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will ultimately… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
I`ve said this when I pass the trade promotion authority law, which allows us to get trade agreements. If we write the… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
In such systems, there is unquestioning respect for authority. Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how… — Robert May, Baron May of Oxford Copy Share Image
The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire; they were scorched by… — John the Apostle Copy Share Image
In my view, the Western model of influencing the development of third world countries is doomed to failure. The West does not… — Ahmed Rashid Copy Share Image
what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
All the modern christian churches, who deny new revelation, have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of… — Orson Pratt 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
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
I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He… — Gianna Beretta Molla Copy Share Image
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image