Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies...

It won’t be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path – up or down – meaning it isn’t always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To...

It is therefore high time that we learned from past mistakes and used our considerable moral authority on the question of nuclear disarmament for the greater good of international peace and stability, rather than simply...

I guess it wouldn’t discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

To accept Jesus is to accept His total authority in your life.

The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers...

When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

[Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now added to their hatred contempt; and the minds of the people were so generally corrupted, that, instead of...

We know from accounts of Rilke’s life that his stay in Rodin’s workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet’s view of the mutilated body thus...

She discovered in a series of beautifully executed researches the fundamental distinction between carbons that turned on heating into graphite and those that did not. Further she related this difference to the chemical constitution of...

But it doesn’t take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.””It might to keep it open.

And so, it does beg the question: Do you need that kind of authority (for active-duty troops)? And that’s going to have to be part of the long discussion,

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?[Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection to heliocentrism due to the Bible’s support of geocentrism]

Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions.

There is no way you can have a trial in a country where there is absolutely no authority. That is the situation in Baghdad today.

I think you are wrong, partner Elijah. My briefing on human characteristics here among the people of Earth includes the information that, unlike the men of the Outer Worlds, they are trained from birth to...

The hearing will be conducted tomorrow because of the transcendental importance of the issues involved. There is authority for the view that the court will decide the question even if it has been rendered moot.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

The so-called spiritual inquiry must necessarily address questions of authority and power since both individuals and the organizations that represent them generally seek legitimacy from hegemonic interpretations of truth and reality. The only way to...

…legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice–that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the...

What authority does a court clerk have to collect more than the fine that is owed? Essentially, that’s what they’re doing.

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.

It is time to impose the authority of law and order. These events … harm our international credibility and strengthen Israel ‘s pretext to undermine peace and stop withdrawals.

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful....

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

The ultimate authority of my life is not the Bible; it is not confined between the covers of a book. It is not something written by men and frozen in time. It is not from...

It is very seldom that the NTC has used its power and authority to close down radio stations and TV stations, only when the situation calls for it.

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities,...

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

People respond more to the authority of status, than the authority of truth.

It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.

There’s always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It’s how you lend some authority to what you write – you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences...

Today is the moment of truth for the Liberals, who do not have moral authority to govern. Will the prime minister respect the will of the elected representatives of the people and recognize he no...

‘And it means naught to you to obey your father’s orders? Where is your fealty?’ Christian felt his face flush with a surge of bitter rage. ‘I keep faith with those who have kept faith...

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.

Since you have to involve more than one national authority, it is recommended to start the procedure a year ahead of retirement age.

one authority, one legitimate gun, one law.

In the worst, but not implausible case, central authority in one or more of these states could evaporate as rival clans or regions vie for power — opening the door to an expansion of terrorist...

Jews do not destroy synagogues. I hope the Palestinian Authority will come to its senses and not allow barbarism and vandalism to rule over the synagogues.

But the fact that judges follow precedent regularly even though not invariably does not support the legalistic theory as strongly as one might expect. The original precedent in a line of precedents could not have...

It is a profound political reality that Christ now occupies the supreme seat of cosmic authority. The kings of this world and all secular governments may ignore this reality, but they cannot undo it. The...

Being mayor doesn’t give her the authority to violate the Constitution or suspend it. Anyone has the right to attend a meeting of government bodies as provided by state law and directly by the Constitution....

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious,...

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge,fitter to bruise than polish.”[Meditations Divine and Moral]

We tell our supporters that they had a government under religious authority and look what happened. Everything got worse.

I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else’s. I’m happy to respect authority when it’s genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I’m eager to...