“The so-called spiritual inquiry must necessarily address questions of authority and power since both individuals and the organizations that represent them generally… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
There's no reason to assume that my idea of what's better would really be better. I resent it when other people try… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There are those, of course, who deny that they need any form of authority. They are the popular atheists and agnostics. Such… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
Emotional maturity is ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished; to endure unpleasantness, discomfort, and… — Edward Adam Strecker Copy Share Image
I know not how the world will receive it, nor how it may reflect on those that shall seem to favor it.… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of… — Pope John XXIII Copy Share Image
I speak "with absolute certainty" only so far as my own personal belief is concerned. Those who have not the same warrant… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
In PLATO AT THE GOOGLEPLEX, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein set out to showcase, in sometimes startling ways, the continuing relevance of a classic… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the… — Ibn Khaldun Copy Share Image
We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If art is to flourish in the twenty-first century, it must renew its moral authority by rededicating itself to life. It must… — Frederick Hart Copy Share Image
I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy… — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored… — David F. Wells Copy Share Image
Do you question my authority? I am the headmistress of Evernight!" It was Balthazar who answered her by casually slinging his crossbow… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Under Article II, all executive power is vested in one president of the United States. The regulatory state is Congress's efforts to… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist. All the good experimental physicists I have known have… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When each citizen submits himself to the authority of law he does not thereby decrease his independence or freedom, but rather increases… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Israel will not transfer Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza District to any foreign sovereign authority, [because] of the historic right of our… — Menachem Begin Copy Share Image
Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
We have no other choice but to go on managing the conflict. We propose a stability plan: We want to strengthen the… — Ayelet Shaked Copy Share Image
We cannot simply speak out against an escalation of troops in Iraq, we must act to prevent it... There can be no… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Because of their lust for authority men are in constant turmoil. Those in authority are ever fighting to maintain it. Those out… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and… — Robert Anasi 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
“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
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Vaclav Havel was the most amazing man in terms of being the combination of somebody with massive moral authority, great courage for… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
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