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- To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it… — Joseph Addison
- Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin
- As the most extravagant errors were received among the established articles of their faith, so the most infamous vices obtained in their… — David Brainerd
- In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific… — Edmund Burke
- Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of… — Friedrich August von Hayek
- Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to… — Frederick Douglass
- The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on… — Alexander Hamilton
- Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted… — Henry Fielding
- Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved… — Lancelot Hogben
- Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society. — Anita Brookner
- I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international… — Vladimir Putin
- Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge