When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty. — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective,… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
Many psychotherapists believe laziness is usually just the symptom. That the real problem is fear of failure, fear of success, or fear… — Marty Nemko Copy Share Image
What has changed immensely in America since 2017, the first year of the Trump administration, is the relentless demonization of nonwhite immigrants,… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank,… — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“No matter how many precautions we take, none of us are truly in control. Only God can claim that kind of authority.… — Karen Witemeyer Copy Share Image
There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We need to organize ourselves and protest against existing order - against war, against economic and sexual exploitation, against racism, etc. But… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
If you ask me what I believe in today, I believe in feminism. I believe that all human beings are equal. I… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
My library is my kingdom, and here I try to make my rule absolute-shutting off this single nook from wife, daughter and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. When it is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
Some authority on parenting once said, Hold them very close and then let them go. This is the hardest truth for a… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
The script for this film was written 52 years ago by Edward R. Murrow, who taught us many valuable lessons about responsibility… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
“But I knew something that Elena hadn't. That the measure of a true queen didn't lie in her magic. It had more… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible,… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I remember opening for the Neville Brothers when we were in our 20s. Art Neville played only a cowbell. We were amazed… — John Popper Copy Share Image
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a… — John T. Flynn Copy Share Image
“Depression arises when one uses his power and authority. Whatever authority there is, it is there for giving happiness to others. Authority… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Many argue that Christianity is "different" from other religions - that it is primarily about love of one's fellow man. The Crusades,… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
When coronavirus first arrived in the U.K., the libertine instincts of our Woosterish Prime Minister seemed out of place. People wanted the… — Nick Boles Copy Share Image
When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with… — Philip Auslander Copy Share Image
I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
