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...

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else’s simply because I know why I said what I said.

there is tremendous displeasure with the function and dysfunction of the government and the Palestinian Authority.

Authority is not a quality one person ‘has,’ in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to...

Clearly appointing a homeland coordinator with only advisory authority is not enough. We need a robust agency to carry out the core functions of homeland defense,

Jesus doesn’t come asking if He can hang out with us. He commands us to follow Him. He has total authority and will settle for nothing less; He won’t settle for being an accessory, an...

I don’t use ‘always do this,’ ‘never say that’ and I never give advice because I’m not the end-all, be-all authority.

We’ve broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

…each person is required to ask, ‘what is my authority?’ – on what do you base your decisions? if it’s yourself, then you are without excuse…

I’ve heard many say “I’ll sell my soul to the Devil”in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?And the Devil if there...

I hope now that in the longer term they will give authority to the fourth official to suspend matches where there is racist abuse of the type we witnessed in Madrid, and if the chanting...

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

He’s showing that you don’t need formal authority. You can have moral authority and be a player – not positional authority, but moral authority? In many ways, it’s a personal crisis like that which drives...

There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can...

You are the authority and the gatekeeper of your own life.

I’ll be on my third honeymoon, so I’m more of an authority than I care to be,

As long as the Palestinian Authority doesn’t fulfill its duty to contain terrorism, there is no alternative left for us but to act, … As long as there is a war, we are in war.

The judges have full authority to exercise discretion. That’s why they’re there.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

As Ernest Becker observes in The Denial of Death, the very thought of disobeying authority appears to awaken the anxiety connected with the possible loss, during infancy, of parental love, respect or support. The unexamined...