Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency previously… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety… — Lord Acton 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
When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“I realized clearly, perhaps for the first time, what strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world… — Anonymous 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
I think that's a major reason. Instead of turning in their own lives to philosophy, religion, love, family life, or nature, they… — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Americans cannot escape a certain responsibility for what is done in our name around the world. In a democracy, even one as… — Mark Hertsgaard 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 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
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope of their father. As long as they’re under the authority… — Doug Phillips Copy Share Image
Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with… — Joe McNally Copy Share Image
The unprecedented transparency of our time is a making change by the day. Our era, with transparency and the spread of information,… — James M Strock 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
Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner: a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline. Here is a novel written with authentic… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“[Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now added to their hatred contempt;… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
I have begun drafting a memorandum for the prosecuting authorities, together with all evidence necessary to establish not only the existence of… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice,… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I can now see that our needs meshed perfectly: my need to be swept away by a man, to be held securely… — Betsy Blair Copy Share Image
The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as… — David Edward Copy Share Image
To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
The word 'truth' itself ceases to have its old meaning. It describes no longer something to be found, with the individual conscience… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there's an absolute authority, and if God's the Creator, He made one… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
If, therefore, the Greeks or others say that they are not committed to Peter and to his successors, they necessarily say that… — Pope Boniface VIII Copy Share Image
As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
With "marriage," the word gets applied to same-sex marriages by proponents and opponents alike. That means the word itself is changing, and… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps… — Louis Caldera Copy Share Image
The authority of science promotes and encourages the activity of observing, comparing, measuring and ordering the physical characteristics of human bodies. Cartesian… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I am more than ever convinced of the dangers to which the free and unbiased exercise of political opinion - the only… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. Some of the companies we helped… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
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