The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have… — Kate Adie Copy Share Image
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC… — Mary Bono Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The… — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I had gone through the whole, and saw what a plain, simple, reasonable thing Christianity was, suited to all conditions and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they… — Marge M. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The sovereignty of the States is the language of the Confederacy and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the… — Andrew Johnson Copy Share Image
...the right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example... Had the holding of slaves… — Richard Furman Copy Share Image
Our adversaries [ the Confederate States of America ] have adopted some declarations of independence in which, unlike the good old one… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
The Internet's abundance - of information, goods, tastes and sources of authority - creates unparalleled opportunities for individuals to get exactly what… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and… — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority. — Brett Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything. — Pedro Meyer Copy Share Image
Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we… — Michael Bloomberg Copy Share Image
If you're using comedy to shame people for getting informed and questioning authority, you're not doing comedy, you're doing propaganda, 'cause comedy… — Jimmy Dore Copy Share Image
I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the… — Noah Baumbach Copy Share Image
“Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Laws are maintained in credit, not because they are essentially just, but because they are laws. It is the mystical foundation of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I wanted to revolutionise habits and contemporary life - to liberate nature, to free it from the authority of old theories and… — Maurice de Vlaminck Copy Share Image
Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of… — Joe Strummer Copy Share Image
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed… — Noel Tichy Copy Share Image
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to… — Paul Ormerod Copy Share Image
There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
When inquiry is suppressed by previous knowledge, or by the authority and experience of another, then learning becomes mere imitation, and imitation… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
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