Their Authority Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do… — Joshua Reynolds
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
THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding… — William Blackstone
There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement.… — Edward Abbey
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority. — Glenn Reynolds
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves… — Barney Frank
I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of Great Britain, for… — William Wilberforce
Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of… — Chinweizu Ibekwe
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more… — James Madison
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one… — Chief Joseph
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that… — Virginia Woolf
I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority. — Kimberly Guilfoyle
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence
Better that right counsels be known to enemies than that the evil secrets of tyrants should be concealed from the citizens. They who can treat… — Baruch Spinoza
Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice -… — Jan Hus

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