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
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
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
Authority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you.… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it,… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also… — Michael Polanyi Copy Share Image
Were it possible so to accelerate the intercourse between every part of the globe that all its inhabitants could be united under… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think that it’s premature to call Libya a democracy because political order is still so fragile there and the command by… — Larry Diamond Copy Share Image
They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Our government should do everything it can to ensure the successful prosecution of those responsible for the murders of U.S. citizens abroad.… — Tim Bishop Copy Share Image
Our scientists all the more occupy advanced positions in the development of world science. By the example of their successes in the… — Vyacheslav Molotov Copy Share Image
In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“I am sure it would be very pleasant and healthy for human beings to have no authority whatever. They would have to… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
A good judge should never boast of his power, because he can do nothing but what he can do justly: he is… — Thomas F. Wilson Copy Share Image
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from… — Maurice Duplessis Copy Share Image
Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by… — Pope Gregory I Copy Share Image
“How you respond to authority over you says a lot about what you claim to believe. When your standard of living is… — Kevin Thoman Copy Share Image
Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough,… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it…[I]f followed to… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Revive the value of seasoned, stoical masculinity in education. Men in authority are now a threatened minority. Again, and in defense of… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I remember growing up and feeling like I didn't really see much of myself represented. Or if I did, there were only… — KiKi Layne Copy Share Image
The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Birth control appeals to the advanced radical because it is calculated to undermine the authority of the Christian churches. I look forward… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
At bottom, the decision to pardon Nixon was a political judgment properly within the bounds of Ford's constitutional authority. The specter of… — Richard Ben-Veniste Copy Share Image
Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be… — Haim Ginott Copy Share Image
It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
“There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is… — John M. Frame Copy Share Image
Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
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