Ethan A. Hitchcock Quotes

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

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• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

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• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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• It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

  

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• Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

  

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• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

  

  Lou Barletta
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• I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when II've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
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• Even things that are true can be proved.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
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• The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.

  

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• In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

  

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• When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

  

  Mark Levin
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• Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
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• I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

  

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• To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
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• Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

  

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• The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.

  

  John Bevere
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• Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

  

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• You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.

  

  Gary Player
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• The most powerful presentations were based on legal precedents, especially Calvin's Case (1608), which, it was claimed, proved on the authority of Coke and Bacon that subjects of the King are by no means necessarily subjects of Parliament.

  

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• You have to remember, videos were on the rise back when we did 'Take On Me.'

  

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  • Rise
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• Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel.

  

  Ethan A. Hitchcock
  • Authority
  • Proved
  • Stigmatizes