Authorities Quotes

261 quotes by 232 authors

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities. — Rand Paul
We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave. — Michael Shermer
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. — Leigh Steinberg
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who… — Tom Stoppard
2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution… — Matt Taibbi
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. — Voltaire
What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from… — Lech Walesa
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value,… — Simone Weil
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest,… — Ai Weiwei
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone. — Evgeny Morozov
In religion and politics peopleâ€™s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves… — Mark Twain
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the… — Oscar Wilde
In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in… — John Green
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. — Karl Marx
In seminary he had been taught that God had completely stopped any overt communication with moderns, preferring to have them only listen to and follow… — William P. Young
God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect. — William P. Young
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable… — Kurt Vonnegut
The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with… — William H. Gass
An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and… — Neal Stephenson

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