“Authority and dominion without relationship is ridiculous” — Apostle Louis Gordon Jr Copy Share Image
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Another person's thoughts about you are outside of your jurisdiction; you have no authority.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song… — John Mellencamp Copy Share Image
I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority. — Michael Baden Copy Share Image
Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade)… — Nevill Drury Copy Share Image
When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that… — Mark Rylance Copy Share Image
I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict… — Henry A. Wise Copy Share Image
“(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man "exercised within… — David J. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the last camp they all ate grass, until the authorities forbade them to pull it up. They were accustomed to having… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense… — James Taranto Copy Share Image
True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Tawny," I barked. My voice held the authority of a drill sergeant. She jumped. "I am NOT making out with you until… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image
