The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Bible rose to the place it now occupies because it deserved to rise to that place, and not because God sent… — Bruce Barton Copy Share Image
Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I didn't really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn't present for or a participant in… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the… — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states - “fear societies” and “free societies.”… The two societies make up… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
The public school system: "Usually a twelve year sentence of mind control. Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and compromise, destroying the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Teach the child to respect that which is not respectable and you teach the child the first requirement of slavery: submission to… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
A decade ago, my poems were precious little boxes, small and claustrophobic, completely inward gazing. I didn't possess the command to speak… — Robin Beth Schaer Copy Share Image
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but… — Robert Todd Carroll Copy Share Image
Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority. — Kenneth P. Green Copy Share Image
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held'… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
“Knowledge and education in the hands of one who claims no higher accountability or authority than one’s own individuality is power in… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
“Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family.… — J. Christopher Herold Copy Share Image
Most players have a basic shot with which they do most of their scoring. Mine is the hook shot and I suppose… — George Mikan Copy Share Image
In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of… — Nicolas Malebranche Copy Share Image
Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of… — Jaan Tallinn Copy Share Image
“Be submissive to one another.' By this phrase, the idea of hierarchy -- that one has authority over another -- is completely… — Henry Hon Copy Share Image
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights… — Hanan Ashrawi Copy Share Image
I was creating characters early. People didn't beat me up. I scared them. I hated authority. I could also get people to… — John Waters Copy Share Image
You are your own highest authority. Do not place your source of authority outside of you. Go within to see if the… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
You can't have some phantom guy that's got all the authority, that's booking all the matches. It takes that stretch of believability… — Arn Anderson Copy Share Image
Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it… — Lorna Goodison Copy Share Image
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