Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.
If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.
When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.
Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and now: What is the source of religious authority? For the Christian the question takes more specific form: What is the relation between the authority of ones own experience and that claimed for the scriptures, the ritual and the clergy?
Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.
Anarchism, in my view, is an expression of the idea that the burden of proof is always on those who argue that authority and domination are necessary. They have to demonstrate, with powerful argument, that that conclusion is correct. If they cannot, then the institutions they defend should be considered illegitimate. How one should react to illegitimate authority depends on circumstances and conditions: there are no formulas.
The Constitution, in addition to delegating certain enumerated powers to Congress, places whole areas outside the reach of Congress' regulatory authority. The First Amendment, for example, is fittingly celebrated for preventing Congress from "prohibiting the free exercise" of religion or "abridging the freedom of speech. " The Second Amendment similarly appears to contain an express limitation on the government's authority.
Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.
There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims.
A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.
The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying.
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.