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Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.
Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
Under the law, the FCC does not have the authority to revoke a license of a broadcast station based on the content of a particular newscast.
I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.
Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.
Don't deny the existence of a mountain in your life; deny its authority to stay, and refuse to allow it to stop the plan of God in your life.
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year since Congress gave it broad new powers in 2008.
I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.
Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving.
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
Because God says that he raises up and places all people in places of authority, it is God who raises up a king. It is God that sets one down.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
But the government spying on me was not done under the authority of a court warrant. That's why my case is even more dangerous than the others.
The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.
Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.
What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Just because you're the coach, you don't automatically have the authority. You have to work the people. You have to gain the trust of the people.
I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.
It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
My dad instilled in me to naturally question all authority. I don't follow anything blindly. That's religion, cops, doctors, schools, you name it.
I'm not the authority on the subject. I'm a middle-aged white guy speaking about racism. I'm just finding it a really difficult subject to broach.
It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.
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.
At 'The Daily Show,' we were satirizing a news program. You put somebody in a suit, you put 'em behind a desk, and they become an authority figure.
Usually a captain will allow his bowler to set the field, while exercising overall control and maintaining the authority to step in if he sees fit.
The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.
If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.
Just as an athlete must exercise his body to be a winner, a leader must exercise his position of authority. If he doesn't, he loses that authority.
Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.
The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.
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.
I played a loving but stern figure of authority and it seems the kids who write me want that kind of a parent instead of one who is a 'pal' to them.
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
I've had a contemptuous relationship with authority throughout my life. I found myself at odds with authority, and I'm disdainful of blind authority.