Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In no other field of scientific endeavor do otherwise intelligent people feel free to make public claims based on prejudice and ignorance.… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The great interests of an agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing nation are so linked in union together that no permanent cause of prosperity… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I also had my own addiction to cocaine and heroin in my 20s. I knew that it was driven not by the… — Maia Szalavitz Copy Share Image
We mean business, George Bush, ... and we're going to go to Congress and we're going to ask them, 'How many more… — Cindy Sheehan Copy Share Image
“Seek no authority over the lives of men; of that the Omniwill is master. Nor seek authority over the goods of men;… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
The real reason to abolish departments like Energy and Education is not to promote efficiency, nor even to save taxpayers’ money. It… — David Boaz Copy Share Image
The intelligence suffers today automatically in consequence of the attack on all authority, advantage, or privilege. These things are not done away… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to… — Elia Suleiman Copy Share Image
“...legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; 'tis the mystic foundation of their authority;… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“Guadalupe Fuentes: --They're not paid to kill honest people, to shoot for no good reasons. Rubenia Fuentes: --Ah, my little girl, then… — Manlio Argueta Copy Share Image
He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We lost faith in authority in the '50s, up to a point, and we spawned a lot of anti-heroes in movies, which… — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
All authority of any kind, especially in the field of thought and understanding, is the most destructive, evil thing. Leaders destroy the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
In this fast paced world it is too frequently the case that people accept what society, family members and the authorities, whom… — Ann Wigmore Copy Share Image
and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If one starts with the assumption that, in the absence of specific Congressional authority, a fixed rule of law precludes contracting officers… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
“Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
I implore you, I entreat you and I challenge you to speak with conviction. To say what you believe in a manner… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
The rule of God is not tyranny, for it does not partake of a political or governmental character -- it is not… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche 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
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she knows that… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
power is not a thing to be owned. But if you believe that it is such a thing, losing it becomes a… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I grew up in a world where authority was female. I never thought to call myself a feminist because of branding. I… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
