Authority Quotes - Page 30

• Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

  Gerry Spence

  Party, Communication, Successful

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• Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one's own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Expression, Requirements, Pope

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• The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspired, Persecution, Infallibility

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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• I have a great respect for the flag, (but) if the government passed a law saying that I had to pledge allegiance to the flag, I don't think I would do it. I've always felt that I lived in a country...where if I wanted to worship God as a Baptist, I could do so. If I were an atheist, I could be one. If I wanted to be a Catholic but was born a Jew, there's no condemnation...from a government authority.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Atheist, Thinking

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• The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed.

  William Paterson

  Law, Political, Measurement

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• He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

  Martin Luther

  Names, Jew

  Martin Luther “On the Jews & Their Lies”, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Don't let anyone tell you that you cannot know the truth for yourself or that you cannot achieve yourself spiritually without being tied to a temple or church. You were not born a spiritual slave. You are the authority who distinguishes what is true and untrue, spiritual and unspiritual.

  Hua Ching Ni

  Spiritual, Church, Temples

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• I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

  Rajneesh

  Answers, Goes On, Accepting

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• And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the validity of the law, uncontrolled by the opinions of the other coordinate authorities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Branches, Opinion

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

  Helen Fielding

  Self, Way, Substance

  Bridget Jones's Diary "New Year's Resolutions" (1996)

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• Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Integrity, Generations, Half

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Military, Humble

  Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.

  Abraham Myerson

  Real, Ignorant, Fields

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• The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Order, Justice

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

  Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

  Exercise, Men, Natural

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• Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

  Alan Keyes

  Rights, Order, Would Be

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• In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

  George Santayana

  Tendencies, Oneself, Locals

  George Santayana (1995). “Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government”, p.116, Transaction Publishers

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• There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

  David Cameron

  Reset Button, Buttons, Three

  "Obama, Cameron stress trust" by Jennifer Epstein, www.politico.com. March 14, 2012.

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• All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Bible, Heaven, Jesus Christ

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• I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

  Alexander Herzen

  War, Names, Ideas

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• The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are no longer willing to submit to control, but demand that everything be subject to their authority. The invariable result is that government assumes the noble names of free and popular, but becomes in fact the most execrable thing, mob rule.

  Polybius

  Passion, Names, Vanity

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• The government's collection authority, under the Patriot Act, is basically limitless. They can get the medical records and financial records, gun purchase records. And it also becomes part of another important issue that relates to the FISA court and the rest of the debate. It almost becomes a secret law, like there are two Patriot Acts. The one you read on the laptop essentially leads you to believe that there's some connection to terror .

  Ron Wyden

  Believe, Gun, Government

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If one is okay with police having guns - whoever is designated as having authority - but panicked at the thought of their fellow man or themselves having guns, then that is someone who does not think like a free person. He places a magical aura around whoever is in charge and only thinks they can wield power. This will come up again in other areas, such as letting government make economic decisions but fearing individual people making those decisions themselves.

  Frank J. Fleming

  Letting Go, Thinking, Gun

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• To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

  Stephen Vizinczey

  Lying, Law, Facts

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• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Teacher, Religious

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