Authorities Quote by Timothy D. Snyder

“The anticipatory obedience of Austrians in March 1938 taught the high Nazi leadership what was possible.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.”

— Timothy Snyder

Ultimate authority in a global system remains with sovereigns. Governments will not have it any other way: politicians face instant rejection from their electorate…

— Michael Ignatieff

Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear…

— Rick Perlstein

I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not,…

— Steven Hatfill

Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade…

— Ron Wyden

As an independent person, I find it difficult being dependent for everything, for even my food and medicine, to the prison authorities. I have…

— Asif Ali Zardari

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

— Mahmoud Abbas

“The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is well to remember that authorities in the field of science are really opinions, and that such authorities have a wax nose and…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“all [the authorities] did was to guard the distant and invisible interests of distant and invisible masters”

— Franz Kafka

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in…

— Richard Attenborough