The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.

You can’t believe everything people tell you – not even if those people are your own brain.

We emphasized our determination to maintain and preserve this calm, … The Palestinian Authority exerts a great deal of effort in reforming our security organizations.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that’s all right.

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new...

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

A coward’s gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.

Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in...

They have to get authority from the President through their department heads,

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.

When they don’t have the moral authority to govern, we have to express what Quebeckers think, and I think Quebeckers don’t want the Liberals any more, … So we’re expressing the voices of all those...

Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy.

You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or a slave. Whether it is to be progress or stagnation.As long as man...

The nature of the proposals is that the Taiwan authority is trying to air ‘two Chinas’ or ‘one China, one Taiwan’ and ‘Taiwan Independence’ in the international community,

Much more common and insidious in the contemporary world is a situation where central authority has disappeared and you have this kind of free for all. That is what we’re seeing in Iraq, so yes,...

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

…a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator….

The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses … the authorization to form a message that appeals from within itself. This power of appeal is...

Those who have faith in the Veda and its authority can personally experience this.

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this...

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable –omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. (The word is...

I don’t go that deep. It’s all about our budget. We answer to a higher authority — which is our lender.

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish...

Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.

The BOJ used its authority to make the decision even though deflation remains a problem.

We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible?

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into...

It is a duty of every citizen to pray for those who are authority and the nation; so that each one of us may live a peaceful and quiet lives in sacredness.

God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.

However, China’s police authority would not sit by and be apathetic and indifferent to law-violating behaviors or content on the Internet.

Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from social workers and therapists, produce false allegations of ‘paedophile rings’, ‘cult...

Despite federal laws and requirement, the CIO is not a member of the senior management team with authority to strategically manage department-wide technology assets and programs.

The Palestinian Authority has to move from words to deeds, … We will not be able to continue this process if the Palestinian Authority will not move to real action against the terror organizations.

The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.

The federal government has no authority to prevent California, or any state, from requiring warnings that provide truthful, important information to consumers.

The trouble with our society is that responsibility and authority have become separated,” he went on, warming to his theme. “The people with the authority to do things no longer take any responsibility for what...

Authority forgets a dying king.

The strong will always rule the weak.

If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won’t open it first.

Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing.

I realized that more and more I was saying, ‘It seems to me that we have come to the time war ought to be given up. It no longer makes sense to kill 20 million...

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed.

Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in...

Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I...

General Clark has the authority (to strike). He was given that authority, … The bombing is on the books, but I think what we need to find out is what General Clark has been able...

There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is unavoidable when one seeks to defend an ultimate standard of truth, for one’s...

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say ‘We eat the chicken now!’ but the magus had seen that I was considering it…”My purse is full enough,” said the magus,...