In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his.… — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Exporting Church employees to Latin America masks a universal and unconscious fear of a new Church. North and South American authorities, differently… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is extraordinary that each of the three individuals this president [ George W. Bush] has nominated for the Supreme Court -… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy,… — Gerald Epstein Copy Share Image
Do not be angry with people who are weak. That is the mark of a coward. There are plenty of things to… — Josei Toda Copy Share Image
In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can… — John Adams Copy Share Image
People call me for interviews on censorship type topics all the time, like that Gannette interview.I don't hold myself out to be… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
As the base rhetorician uses language to increase his own power, to produce converts to his own cause, and to create loyal… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
The Orderly Liquidation Authority prescribed by Dodd-Frank should be repealed and replaced by an amendment to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code which would… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
“Someone who had authority, or should have had authority and did not exercise authority. I do not know. But someone sometime let… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions… — Mickey Edwards Copy Share Image
It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
The gifts that Yeshua left in the earth realm to enforce His authority were apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists. The gift… — Chuck Pierce Copy Share Image
The Iranian government is the government that supplied the arms on the Karin-A to the Palestinian Authority several years ago, they are… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture;… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands… — Chinweizu Ibekwe 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
The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody… — Andrew Rippin Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can they speak of human rights - the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence… — John Adams Copy Share Image
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