Authority Quotes

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If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for… — Sigmund Freud
Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the authority of universal ideals. Let us choose to reconcile the creative forces of private… — Kofi Annan
Today the universal common good poses problems of world-wide dimensions, which cannot be adequately tackled or solved except by the efforts of public authorities endowed… — Pope John XXIII
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of vision. It speaks… — Gaston Bachelard
I would say to bishops, and to all men in authority, we should have an interest in carrying on this work. We should labor to… — Wilford Woodruff
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy… — Chris Hedges
Dogma demands authority, rather than intelligent thought, as the source of opinion; it requires persecution of heretics and hostility to unbelievers; it asks of its… — Bertrand Russell
Although one never really knows what one's associates think of one deep down, I believe I was easy to work with, even though I have… — Guy de Rothschild
[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit pattern that you… — Henepola Gunaratana
If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink… — Ludwig von Mises
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made,… — James Madison
There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to… — Alexander Hamilton
The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on… — Albert Einstein
No moral system can rest solely on authority. — A.J. Ayer
[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no appeal… — James Madison
On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in… — James Madison
Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full… — Alexander Hamilton
It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people… — James Madison
The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution. — James Madison
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of… — James Madison

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