#authorities

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#certainly #doubt #engine #leave #lodged

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here? ↗

— Alexei Navalny

#authorities #been #book #called #constitution

There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities. ↗

— Gary Neville

#being #clubs #concerns #english #english football

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. ↗

— John Reed

#authorities #comes #contempt #every #excites

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

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#agreed #authorities #coups #everywhere #freedom

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#author #authorities #been #behind #copies

We will defend ourselves, and we have full rights to do so. If the authorities try to destroy us, we have the right to rise up. Sooner or later this will happen. ↗

— Sergei Udaltsov

#defend #destroy #full #happen #later

We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have a catastrophic terrorist attack, it is the military that is going to have to go in at the request of civilian authorities. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#attack #attacks #authorities #because #catastrophic

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

— Gijs de Vries

#authorities #central #fight #national #role