If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
God has not granted civic rulers authority over the doctrine, practice, or polity of the church. — John MacArthur Copy Share Image
To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all… — Graham Kendrick Copy Share Image
“Just because you shot Jesse James...don't make you Jesse James. ( Breaking Bad : Season 5, Episode 3-"Hazard Pay")” — Mike Ehrmantraut Copy Share Image
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would… — Doug Bandow Copy Share Image
“The more a man departs from lawful authority, that is, authority normally constituted, whether by God or by the nature of things,… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic… — Seymour Papert Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty… — Strobe Talbott Copy Share Image
We know that Seattle is mentioned frequently ... a computer was found in Afghanistan showing pictures of Seattle-area landmarks. So we are… — Greg Nickels Copy Share Image
MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Some lawyers and judges may have forgotten it, but the purpose of the court system is to produce justice, not slavish obedience… — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
The Lordship of Jesus Christ is not quite forgotten among Christians, but it has been relegated to the hymnal where all responsibility… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
With a nonviolent movement we are still inviting a strong reaction from the government or ruling authorities. We are inviting a powerful… — Tim DeChristopher Copy Share Image
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup. — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence. — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
“...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains your authority returns to you.” — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. — James Burgh Copy Share Image
The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. — Mike Lofgren Copy Share Image
Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority. — David Weber Copy Share Image
Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power. — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the… — Matthew Barnett Copy Share Image
