Authorities Quotes
261 Authorities quotes by 227 unique authors
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Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.
— Walter Benjamin
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I mourn my old life here. We barely scraped by, but I knew where I fit in, I knew what my place was in the…
— Suzanne Collins
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The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If…
— Steven Pinker
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I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the…
— Quentin Crisp
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Mum said, "It is the thought that counts." And I said, "I know, which is why I am ringing the authorities right now. Anyone who…
— Louise Rennison
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Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better…
— Carl Sagan
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A free thinker used to be a man who had been educated on ideas of religion, law, morality, and had arrived at free thought by…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going…
— Timothy Leary
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As naturally as the ruled always took the morality imposed upon them more seriously than did the rulers themselves, the deceived masses are today captivated…
— Theodor Adorno
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I won’t tell you how I managed to break in, since I don’t want the authorities figuring out, but let’s just say that if you’re…
— Meg Cabot
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When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
— Bertrand Russell
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To resort to power one need not be violent, and to speak to conscience one need not be meek. The most effective action both resorts…
— Barbara Deming
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Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how…
— Linus Pauling
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Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown…
— Stieg Larsson
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In Gujarat, we had the world record of largest number of chess games in a single venue - 20,500 - and in Tamil Nadu, I…
— Viswanathan Anand
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The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people…
— James E. Faust
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As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have had…
— Asif Ali Zardari
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There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires…
— Michael Anti
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It is important that the right of Israel to exist should be respected and also the viable Palestinian authorities, in terms of political and financial…
— Ban Ki-moon
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