I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
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To be a son or daughter of God also means you are royalty. This is the greatest of privileges, but it is… — Heidi Baker Copy Share Image
The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include:… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I have no doubt that if an actual ticking bomb situation were to arise, our law enforcement authorities would torture. The real… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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“Rather than the one who gets angry, the world is more afraid of the one who does not get angry. Why? When… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
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The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
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Christ was crucified by the Jews who had wanted a temporal ruler to rescue them from the oppressive Roman authorities. Instead God… — Paul Weyrich Copy Share Image
The question is now do you have the authority in the hands of someone that other media is going to cooperate with,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that… — Joel Henry Hildebrand Copy Share Image
The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in… — Spencer Abraham Copy Share Image
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I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
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Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
The last image created in verse four of this hymn, ["Come, O Thou Glorious King"] that of the promised Messiah coming into… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
For openers, marriage is neither a matter of politics, nor is it a matter of social policy. Marriage is defined by the… — Lance B. Wickman Copy Share Image
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