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

It has often been suggested to me that the Constitution of the United States is a sufficient safeguard for the freedom of its citizens. It is obvious that even the freedom it pretends to guarantee...

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Some people believe that it isn’t so much power that is exchanged in TPE, as it is authority. The intrinsic difference between power and authority can best be explained thusly: If we were talking about...

The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority of the state is already thrown over by the authority of conscience. …...

This vacillation between assertion and denial in discussions about organised abuse can be understood as functional, in that it serves to contain the traumatic kernel at the heart of allegations of organised abuse. In his...

Hamdi will have a fair and transparent trial. Public opinion is one thing, judicial authority is another.

For the first time since he came to power in 2000, he has a unique chance to impose his authority on rival power centers and emerge as the real ruler of Syria,

Learn to bend before that authority and you will learn how to submit before the Lord.

We’ve heard them all talk about Dust, and they’re so afraid of it, and you know what? We believed them, even though we could see that what they were doing was wicked and evil and...

Consumers have a lot more authority these days and they know that by using technology they can gain access to content and they want to use the power that they have… We can’t stand in...

But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in my vocabulary expressed deeper hatred than the word INTERFERENCE. But Christianity placed at...

If you refuse to accept what is, and choose to see what could be, then you set a course for yourself that makes others take notice of you, respect you, revere you. It is then...

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told…and have a sense of humor doing it.

If these conditions are met then we stand ready to continue (to fund the Palestinian Authority ). If they do not change then it will be very difficult.

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the minds of men. The Resurgence of Authority stands opposed to the...

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel’s interests to strengthen it by… continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

one authority, one weapon.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

We have shared our view on transparency with the European Commission and the U.K. ‘s Financial Services Authority.

Never let haters ‘still’ your flow. They can only do so with your permission.

has to invest more of his authority, of his control. But there is a beginning of hope that I wouldn’t put aside.

There is no night porter wandering about in King’s. The authorities pay you the compliment, ugly gate-crasher, of treating you as a grown-up. And since we are not grown-up you and I, we will perform...

I have no idea what the Ports Authority is thinking and I never have. We’re moving forward with the condemnation and feel confident it’s back on track and are delighted that the Supreme Court ruling...

You understand Teacher, don’t you, that when you have a mother who’s an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then...

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and...

…There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man’s words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, ‘The sky is blue,’ and...

Paul Martin’s government has lost the moral authority to govern.

Authority to dream is not given, it is taken. Take it. Do not let the judgment of others be the final word. Without a doubt, if there is a one-word, one-step cure for bad peg...