#authorities

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting. ↗

— Alain Robert

#authorities #back #events #host #i

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return. ↗

— Ma Jian

#allowed #authorities #been #beijing #book

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#athlete #authorities #chances #even #forty

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. ↗

— Simone Weil

#been #certain #class #comes #life

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#attitudes #authorities #censored #china #chinese

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres and put them back in the hands of the local authorities. ↗

— Timothy West

#authorities #back #buy #council #derelict

Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us. ↗

— Francis Wright

#arrive #attentive #authorities #dictum #examine

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins. ↗

— Russell Baker

#assured #authorities #blues #days #good

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#card #consulted #control #disorder #memories

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#authorities #central #fight #national #role