Authority Quotes
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Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
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For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.
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There is nothing going on in your life that you don't have the authority to overcome.
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
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Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.
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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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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.
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The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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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.
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God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
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I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'
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Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.
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If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.
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I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
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As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
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I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
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Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
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I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.
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The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.
