We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote… — Ihab Hassan Copy Share Image
Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
...There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man's words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
Hamas' leadership needs new blood. I will continue to serve my people. But the presidency of the Palestinian Autonomous Authority is not… — Khaled Mashal Copy Share Image
The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total.… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of… — Savitri Devi Copy Share Image
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although the FCC has tried to introduce net neutrality rules to avoid abusive practices like favoring your own services over others, they… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the… — John Bevere Copy Share Image
The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other.… — William Blackstone Copy Share Image
The chief evil with relation to the body is love for the body and pitying it. This takes away all the soul's… — Theophan the Recluse Copy Share Image
Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
Fathers are still considered the most important "doers" in our culture, and in most families they are that. Girls see them as… — Stella Chess Copy Share Image
The nature of the economic system should be a matter for public choice, and free market capitalism should not be accepted without… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
The globalists, the establishment, they think America isn't particularly exceptional and should be no different than any other state in the world,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
“Authority ... cannot be a darksome power that compels us to subject ourselves without reason ... Something happens in revelation that is… — G.C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
If instead policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
If one is okay with police having guns - whoever is designated as having authority - but panicked at the thought of… — Frank J. Fleming Copy Share Image
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
As we are concerned with what others think of us, so we are anxious to know all about them; and from this… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Evil exists because of the disobedience of Satan. God gave Satan, and the angels, and man free will. Satan used his free… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“Our identity is in Christ, not in our work, our accomplishments or our own good works. Our provision is from God alone,… — Paddick Van Zyl Copy Share Image
A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Young people increasingly have become subject to an oppressive disciplinary machine that teaches them to define citizenship through the exchange practices of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
My only role in the opening of the schools has been to suggest and encourage opening them. But it is impossible for… — Fethullah Gulen Copy Share Image
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
![“[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar…” quote by Antonin Artaud](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f93/antonin-artaud-3802_adventure_nietzsche-s-definition-of-cruelty-inform_2318694.png)
![“With what moral authority can [the US] speak of human rights... the rulers of a nation in which the millionaire and beggar coexist; where the Indian is exterminated; the black man is discriminated against; the woman is prostituted; and the great masses of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Latin…” quote by Fidel Castro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/fidel-castro-2285_assets_with-what-moral-authority-can-the-us-spe_2078056.jpg)
![“My only role in the opening of the schools has been to suggest and encourage opening them. But it is impossible for there to be a [central authority] controlling the schools. They are in more than 100 countries, and there must be many different companies that have opened and run them.” quote by Fethullah Gulen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64f/fethullah-gulen-7833_authority_my-only-role-in-the-opening-of-the-schoo_312324.jpg)
