Authorities Quotes

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With a nonviolent movement we are still inviting a strong reaction from the government or ruling authorities. We are inviting a powerful reaction against ourselves.… — Tim DeChristopher
A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got suspicious when they… — Jay Leno
The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed. — Jackie Chan
In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure… — Hyman Minsky
In this fast paced world it is too frequently the case that people accept what society, family members and the authorities, whom nobody ever seems… — Ann Wigmore
That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable â€¦ A representative democracy, where the right of election is well… — Alexander Hamilton
The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians. — Randall Munroe
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer
Each department and institution has its own authorities and responsibilities, and they act on that basis. It is wrong to even compare such actions to… — Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities and is subjected to questioning . . . he… — Earl Warren
When you call us, ladies and gentlemen, just so you know, we do have your phone number, and if you say anything untoward, obscene, or… — Bill O'Reilly
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is… — Joan D. Chittister
The easiest and quickest path into the esteem of traditional military authorities is by the appeal to the eye, rather than to the mind. The… — B. H. Liddell Hart
All appeals to Scripture are appeals to interpretations of Scripture. The only real question is: whose interpretation? People with differing interpretations of Scripture cannot set… — Keith Mathison
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely… — Oscar Wilde
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of… — Jorge Luis Borges
There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims. — Robert Spencer
Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you… — Edward Snowden
While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still… — Pope Benedict XVI

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