We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration… — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead Copy Share Image
The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in it, and to tell the world… — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
If I can go through life free and rich, I shall not cry because my neighbor, equally free, is richer. Liberty will… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority. — Jack Schwartz Copy Share Image
An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a… — Harbhajan Singh Copy Share Image
If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It… — James K. Baxter Copy Share Image
“Have a seat." The deep voice, shrouded in authority, commanded. It came from the little man sitting one chair down from the… — Liz Schulte Copy Share Image
Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
In knowledge of human affairs, we should never allow our minds to be enslaved by others by subjecting ourselves to their whims.… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We may be thankful that frightened civil authorities ... have not managed to eradicate from the country the tradition of the possession… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it… — Dmitri Volkogonov Copy Share Image
We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes… — George F. Richards Copy Share Image
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the… — Ingrid Betancourt Copy Share Image
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable… — Janet Yellen Copy Share Image
For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
If you want peace, be peace. If you want wealth, be wealth. Think it. Talk it. Prepare yourself to have it. Have… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that having power is overrated, but powerlessness can give rise to a different kind of authority, and… — Matthew Specktor Copy Share Image
The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary… — Jan Struther Copy Share Image
I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
Italian authorities seized $6 trillion worth of fake, worthless U.S. Treasury bonds. Pretty good counterfeit job, too. They look just like the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
I think the grandfather of the set is the director. He needs to have authority, to do what people want. A warm… — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
![“[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing support internally, and was compelled to send the vote to Congress, and it looked as if he was going to be defeated, which would have been a very serious blow to his presidency…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f65/noam-chomsky-42_able_barack-obama-was-reaching-a-point-with-s_1066059.jpg)
