Authority Quotes

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It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as… — James Madison
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
Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them… — Baruch Spinoza
Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak — Tim Field
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping… — Julian Huxley
The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's the beauty of… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If… — Boyd K. Packer
This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would interpose the Government… — Strom Thurmond
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil… — Thomas Jefferson
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
From the Soviet gulag to the Nazi concentration camps and the killing fields of Cambodia, history teaches that granting the state legal authority to kill… — Pete du Pont
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
...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
The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of… — Alexander Hamilton
Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence. — Alexander Hamilton
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A… — Alexander Hamilton
When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age… — Unknown Author
The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need. If you're… — Unknown Author
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
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
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience… — Martin Luther
It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with… — James Madison

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