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The people run the country. So if people didn't want you shooting in their neighborhood, there's no authority that can tell them they have to. That's why it's called the People's Republic of China.
- James Lassiter
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
- J. K. Simmons
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
- Barbara Olson
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Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.
- Lee Greenwood
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And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
- Hu Shih
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I've always had a healthy disregard for authority - it allows me to do my job as a portrait photographer and not as someone who is playing the power game.
- Platon
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
- Jackie Robinson
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The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles.
- Edward Said
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The key benefits of a Special Purpose National Bank Charter are uniform regulations, standards, supervision, and authority for emerging financial technology companies to operate nationwide.
- Perianne Boring
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When you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.
- Lakeith Stanfield
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We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.
- Hugh Prather
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Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.
- Lou Barletta
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas Huxley
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We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.
- William Hedgcock Webster
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Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
- Jack Schwartz
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The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.
- Kumar Mangalam Birla
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It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
- Wilfred Burchett
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After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.
- Sheikh Hasina
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Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.
- Robert Metcalfe
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You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction is that there's a difference between the authority of a pastor and a Bible teacher.
- Charles Stanley
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My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
- Chris Hayes
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I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
- Charles de Gaulle
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If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.
- Yuval Noah Harari
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The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
- Naftali Bennett
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I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
- Gene Hackman
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A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
- James MacGregor Burns
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
- Bryant H. McGill
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Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.
- Michael Polanyi
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Admittedly, the body of scientists, as a whole, does uphold the authority of science over the lay public. It controls thereby also the process by which young men are trained to become members of the scientific profession.
- Michael Polanyi
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The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
- Bill Forsyth
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The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
- John Piper
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The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of civil power over military power must inevitably lead away from democracy.
- Harold Russell
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Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
- George Bancroft
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Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.
- Peter Straub
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The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots.
- Joshua A. Norton
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For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation.
- John Paul Stevens
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Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.
- Don Bluth
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If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.
- Paul Gosar
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
- Feisal Abdul Rauf
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Thoreau points out clearly that civil disobedience gets its moral authority by the willingness to suffer the penalties from disobeying a law, even if you think that law is unjust.
- Michael Hayden
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It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
- John Jay Hooker
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The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
- William Greider
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A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.
- Elfriede Jelinek
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I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
- Matt Gonzalez
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is?
- J. C. Ryle
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If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummer's put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
- Steve Winwood
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Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
- Bruno Bettelheim
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I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.
- Martina Navratilova
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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
- Malcolm Forbes
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I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.
- John Patrick Shanley
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The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.
- Roy Moore
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Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War.
- Jackson Katz
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President Obama is in violation of Section 3 of Article II of the Constitution by refusing to enforce the employer mandate provisions of Obamacare. The executive branch, which has no constitutional authority to write or rewrite law at whim, has usurped the exclusive legislative power of Congress.
- Scott Garrett
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The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
- John T. Flynn
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We all agree that we've got to bring these terrorists to justice and to make sure that they're never allowed to perpetrate such an evil act as they did. And so all of us are dealing with that. We know that the President has the authority to go to war under the War Powers Act.
- Barbara Lee
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The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.
- Joyce Meyer
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This idea of walls, segregation, labels, and 'You against us' and 'We are superior and you are inferior.' Which people are legitimate? Which relationships are legitimate or not? Who declares that under which authority? These are things that are hugely important.
- Sebastian Lelio
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I would never want to deny my Mennonite background and culture; I'll always feel like and be identified as a Mennonite and therefore possess that little extra authority on our beliefs. I also see myself as a Canadian writer.
- Miriam Toews
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Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.
- Greg Graffin
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No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
- Ernestine Rose
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Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
- Steve Chabot
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If you put too much pressure on the Palestinian Authority, it will collapse - it will disappear - and Israel will have to formally re-occupy the West Bank and assume responsibility for the Palestinians there. The United States doesn't want that. Israel doesn't really want that.
- Ian Lustick
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The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.
- Ian Lustick
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The world doesn't understand the system here. The authority of the people. You don't understand it.
- Muammar al-Gaddafi
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For 40 years, I have not been the ruler - the authority has been with the people. They take nothing from me or add anything to me.
- Muammar al-Gaddafi
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As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
- Michael Cunningham
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There must be an authority at the state level to coordinate flood mitigation projects in upstream watersheds. Additionally, this state entity could bring together multiple stakeholders to benefit all communities in the region.
- George P. Bush
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Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.
- John Winthrop
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The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.
- Ali ibn Abi Talib
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As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.
- Fredrik Bajer
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The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
- Vernon Jordan
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It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.
- Robert Creeley
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Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.
- Robert Creeley
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The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.
- Yuval Noah Harari
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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.
- Gary Hamel
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Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.
- Joe Strummer
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We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the court's own legitimacy and authority.
- Noah Feldman
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Privacy is an age of universal email collection and spying, with millions of CCTV cameras and warrantless spying pervasive; privacy has become virtually nonexistent and, therefore, extremely scarce and desirable. Bitcoin can be a completely anonymous transaction that maintains the user's privacy beyond the reach of any authority.
- Max Keiser
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Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
- Brendan Myers
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I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.
- James Ellroy
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Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.
- James Hetfield
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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
- Charles Hodge
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A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.
- Ari Melber
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I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.
- Jonathan Haidt
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That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.
- Jimmy Kimmel
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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.
- Mitchell Baker
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Bitcoin has been described as a decentralized, peer-to-peer virtual currency that is used like money - it can be exchanged for traditional currencies such as the U.S. dollar or used to purchase goods or services, usually online. Unlike traditional currencies, Bitcoin operates without central authority or banks and is not backed by any government.
- Perianne Boring
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Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.
- Masha Gessen
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America doesn't have the moral authority or weight to tip the scales in this fight between moderate Islam and less tolerant Islam. Muslim communities and Muslim nations need to be leading edge of this fight.
- Chris Murphy
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I have a lot of respect for Messi and for everything that he has achieved. He is very humble. But it's crucial to show authority when we meet on the pitch and show him who's boss.
- Manuel Neuer
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We live in cautious times where HR has a very inflated sense of authority over companies.
- Will Speck
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I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.
- Ian Brown
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I don't mind it so much if I get type cast as an authority figure. I get to do comedy no matter what it is, so it doesn't bother me.
- Rob Riggle
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
- Anne Bradstreet
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
- Manal al-Sharif
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We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.
- Bret Stephens
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Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.
- Thomas Frank
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Because God says that he raises up and places all people in places of authority, it is God who raises up a king. It is God that sets one down.
- Paula White
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No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
- John Wycliffe
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Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.
- Charles Hodge
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