Saints are described as fearing the name of God; they are reverent worshippers; they stand in awe of the Lord's authority; they… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches… — C. Wagner Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: That South Africa belongs to all… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
“Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more… — John Adams Copy Share Image
In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am inclined to think that the authority of Holy Scripture is intended to convince men of those truths which are necessary… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate… — Tom Daschle Copy Share Image
“The authority of God is not ... an arbitrary, external authority, demanding blind obedience ... The authority of God is a wooing… — G C Berkouwer Copy Share Image
We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children;… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Aside from sending someone to war or to prison, government s ability to make people involuntarily give over their money is its… — William Greider Copy Share Image
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority.… — Harold Russell Copy Share Image
Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
The problems of rebellious youth can be traced to homes where the mother disobeyed the father or showed lack of respect for… — Helen Andelin Copy Share Image
No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the… — William Hague Copy Share Image
When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
At 'The Daily Show,' we were satirizing a news program. You put somebody in a suit, you put 'em behind a desk,… — Wyatt Cenac Copy Share Image
A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
First of all, the evangelical is one who is entirely subservient to the Bible. This is true of every evangelical. He is… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
The world isn't one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and… — Rory Stewart Copy Share Image
Mikhail Saakashvili would do everything within his power to destroy me, first as a politician and then as a person. All government… — Irakli Okruashvili Copy Share Image
That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
All good art is seditious, but the people in authority can never recognise it. I think when you mention sedition, artists are… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Authority is the spiritual dimension of power because it depends upon faith in a system of meaning that decrees the necessity of… — Shoshana Zuboff Copy Share Image
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people… — Angelo Scola Copy Share Image
Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that ‘it is the nature and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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