The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“Authority is a strange concept. It begins with assumptions and ends with denials. The bigger the Authority, the more power it assumes,… — Sharon Lee Copy Share Image
“When we speak of authority at present we usually have in mind governmental authority. Actually, social order is most firm when imposed… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The key to the missionary's work is the authority of Jesus Christ, not the needs of the lost. We are inclined to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Praise causes the presence of the Lord to come into our midst. Even though God is omniscient, He manifests His authority and… — Chuck Pierce Copy Share Image
If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is scripture alone, not conservative Evangelical tradition or any other human authority, that must function as the normative authority for the… — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
If anyone dared to assert that the Pontiff had erred in this or that canonisation, we shall say that he is, if… — Pope Benedict XIV Copy Share Image
Which brings me to the point: In order to lose momentum, the U.S. economy has to have momentum to begin with. If… — Caroline Baum Copy Share Image
The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable… — Byron White Copy Share Image
..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
There is a meltdown of authority going on in the world and a corresponding increase of lawlessness. The earth itself is also… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You received the power, the authority, and the sacred duty to minister the moment you were ordained to the priesthood. President James… — David L. Beck Copy Share Image
The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must… — George Mason Copy Share Image
“I realized that more and more I was saying, 'It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless,… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
For authority proceeds from true reason, but reason certainly does not proceed from authority. For every authority which is not upheld by… — Johannes Scotus Eriugena Copy Share Image
When all mental activity around who you think you are is stopped, there is a crack in the authority of perception, in… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
What many students most want from college, although they would never admit it, is an authority structure. There is a demand for… — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
For many years I have lived with a secret, in a secrecy imposed on all specialists in astronautics. I can now reveal… — Gordon Cooper Copy Share Image
Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
State authority can never be an end in itself; for, if that were so, any kind of tyranny would be inviolable and… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress's constitutional authority… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
People equate job titles to levels of creativity. We think that musicians are creative while accountants are not. Job title has nothing… — Josh Linkner 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
...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
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
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
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
We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
![“[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless…” quote by Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b3/carl-sagan-160_argument_science-is-not-perfect-it-can-be-misused_2558360.jpg)
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