Authorities Quotes
261 quotes by 232 authors
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
— Russell Baker
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
— Robert Benchley
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
— Kate Adie
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We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering…
— John O. Brennan
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The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he…
— Mel Brooks
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War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion…
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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The other General Welfare Clause is in the first of the authorities given to the Congress and it's not a grant, it's a restriction. By…
— Andrew Napolitano
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In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.
— Gijs de Vries
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation],…
— Frederick Soddy
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A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
— Lucretia Mott
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The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin…
— Bertrand Russell
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The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles;…
— Thomas Paine
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By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and…
— James Madison
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I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see and understand because…
— Yekaterina Samutsevich
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In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell…
— Jesse L. Greenstein
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