Authority Quote by Oliver Cowdery

I am influenced at the present time by far higher considerations and by a nobler idea of duty than I ever was when I…

— George Eliot

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer…

— James Joyce

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

— Thomas Jefferson

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator.

— Adolf Hitler

Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

— Matilda Joslyn Gage

I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching.

— John Adams

I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus…

— Anne Rice

I follow no doctrine. I don't belong to a church or a temple or a synagogue or an ashram.

— Meryl Streep

I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

My legal wife is to me dead; the only ecclesiastical authority I recognise pronounces me free; the attacks and threats of men do not…

— William the Silent

No one can change your beliefs for you, nor can they be forced upon you from without.

— Seth Roberts