Presidents don’t make new friends. That’s why they’ve got to keep their old ones.” Adm. Fitzwallace

The case was never about blaming the terrorists, … It was about what the Port Authority should have done. They disregarded the advice of their own experts and other experts. They were motivated by money....

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

I’m going on vacation, and I’m leaving my clone in charge. I’ll be gone, but I’ll be here.

The data is brought before the commission. Only the commission has the authority to change the listing of a species,

However, the Turnpike Authority will certainly work with the administration and the Legislature on any proposals that may benefit the state.

We had it on very good authority from figures who ought to know, the governor and a congressman, that those miners were alive, and we reported it. And as soon as we knew otherwise, we...

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Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of survivors. One of the standard objections to qualitative research is that...

…if you’re an artist, you’ve submitted to authority…

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is...

My master then, assuming he is solitary, in my image, wishes me well, poor devil, wishes my good, and if he does not seem to do very much in order not to be disappointed it...

They should rethink the entire flood protection system of New Orleans. It is a real hodgepodge of authority. If there was a coordinated effort, more could be done with less money.

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes...

All slots belong to the Airports Authority of India and the authority on needs of a public service allocate these slots and that also goes for parking bays. The question is whether this could be...

Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see...

Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed...

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

No, I did not.

Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.

While we are the major donor … we are not the major source of finance for the Palestinian Authority.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

When your authority comes straight from God, shit always turns ugly.

Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.

…But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative—the purpose...

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

This many deaths scream (for) investigation by everyone with authority to do so.

He decided himself to leave the squad. If we called him back, we would lose authority without any guarantees that he would not repeat such an act.

Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this true of legally constituted states, invested with all this seeming moral authority of...

We’re asking for local authority to deal with it based on what we see, rather than someone below us telling us what to do and someone above us not having to do anything.

Our authority to own and operate a container terminal has been confirmed and now it is time to build it.

Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception

The airport authority is optimistic it will be constructed.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

(Patrick Henry) He understood that the home was the foundation of a stable society and that the authority a man “exercised within the larger society was rooted in the authority exercised at home.” Thus …...

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

However, under New Hampshire law, Secretary Gardner has the authority to set the date of the primary. Secretary Gardner’s decision will stand, and we must now focus our efforts on protecting our primary.

We have already seen that when positive authority suggests a change in behavior, the recipient will accept it provided he is capable of doing so and provided it does not require drastic modification of belief...

All factions will participate with the Palestinian Authority in the rebuilding.

…people quote proverbs without realizing they’re really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression…

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to the gold...

We’re not mad,” he began, meaning he was. He was always a plural when mad, as though grammatically throwing his lot in with her mother gave him the power of her authority.

The institutions that claim to represent God, when they are not ignored altogether, are treated like other human institutions that have to earn their right to a hearing by the value of what they say,...

Let us forget that we are Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Presbyterians, or Free-thinkers, and remember only that we are men and women. After all, man and woman are the highest possible titles. All other names belittle...

RIGHT, n. 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. The first of...

Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

I suppose if there’s a set of genes I have, it’s detesting authority.

Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv ist, ob der Bürger am Leben oder tot ist.

Authority that can not be questioned is tyranny” Terry Pratchett: A Slip of the Keyboard