Mother Church.” She is, in many ways, an admirable and dedicated person, deeply concerned about her children, endlessly and tirelessly careful for every detail of their welfare. Her long experience has taught her to understand...

SCEPTER, n. A king’s staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of...

The armed forces and the police should be subordinated to the authority elected by the popular sovereignty.

He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to bloody hurt.

The Port Authority predicted exactly what happened. Why didn’t they do something about it?

Wir werden als abhängige Bürger geboren. Vom Moment unserer Geburt an sind wie Abhängige. Ein Zeichen dieser Abhängigkeit ist die Geburtsurkunde. […] Entweder erhälst du die staatliche Urkunde […], was dir zu einer Identität verhilft,...

They’re trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference, … The reality is that the feds are the ones that screwed up in the first place. It’s not about authority. It’s...

It is the common aspiration of the international community to safeguard the Security Council’s authority when dealing with significant issues like the Iraq issue,

The kingdom is often limited to the hearts of the regenerate, heaven, or the eternal state. This virtually denies that the messianic kingdom has anything to do with this present earth. In contrast to this...

This, not incidentally, is another perfect setting for deindividuation: on one side, the functionary behind a wall of security glass following a script laid out with the intention that it should be applied no matter...

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

freeing prisoners, lifting the siege on Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian areas and easing up freedom of movement to Palestinians.

…true authority is not based on control – it’s based on truth…

Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do anything I cannot be stopped from doing. Which sometimes entails not getting caught...

Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

In the late 19th century, the Populists – a protest movement of mainly disaffected farmers and workers – threatened to overturn established authority.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke....

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

Sì perché l’autorità dell’opinione di mille nelle scienze non val per una scintilla di ragione di un solo, sì perché le presenti osservazioni spogliano d’autorità i decreti de’ passati scrittori, i quali se vedute l’avessero,...

The 10 ever greatest misplacements in life:1. Leadership without character.2. Followership without servant-being.3. Brotherhood without integrity.4. Affluence without wisdom.5. Authority without conscience.6. Relationship without faithfullness.7. Festivals without peace.8. Repeated failure without change.9. Good wealth without...

The question of whether or not Congress has the authority to federally recognize a Native Hawaiian governing entity is an issue that has yet to be ruled on by the courts,

There is no method of self-knowledge. Seeking a method invariably implies the desire to attain some result – and that is what we all want. We follow authority – if not that of a person,...

We did business with an authority in Iraq. The same authority tells our agent that you have to pay a fee to do any business at all,

For them to set up a self-proclaimed government would be a direct challenge to the executive authority of the president,

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don’t have.

According to Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of The Jerusalem Post, the Palestinian Authority in the last decade has received more money per capita, in constant dollars, than did Western Europe under the Marshall Plan.

Her mind moved around and around the subject, moving with a kind of fuzzy firmness. With no coherent thought process, she arrived at a conviction – a habit with the basically insecure; an insecurity whose...

I don’t have any authority, but it’s like the younger kids on the team think I do. I guess it’s because I’ve been around so long.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

I respect you as my king, and I respect you as my father, but I do not respect you as a man!

They think they can destroy my authority and credibility with the people, their trust in me,

We’ve got to put Congress on the hot seat. Congress gave George Bush the authority and money to wage this war. Now they have to hold him accountable.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

If the Palestinian Authority continues to support violence, it is important that Israel and the international community make it clear they cannot advance their political agenda, their political goals, … Violence will bring about a...

You circumvent our authority and our process in this, … You stood there and said ‘I,’ ‘I,’ ‘I,’ ‘my vision,’ — she doesn’t know any other pronoun.

One great thinker said one thing, another said another, and while the two thoughts are contradicting, the one that backs my argument at the moment is the superior statement.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You’re dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

The lesson I learned is that when you give someone authority, you must be conscious you are doing so and continue to ask yourself whether it is in your best interests.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling…and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and...

This attack was aimed at sabotaging the elections and the efforts that have been made by the Palestinian Authority [PA].

The Palestinian Authority is under siege, imprisoned and ridiculed.

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity’s turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined morphological expectations. It is still capable of perceiving message-totalities and autonomous thing-signals when...

When everything has gone down, God wants youto look up

Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership.

When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?

FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint’s infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction...

The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.