#authority

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. ↗

— Boris Johnson

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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country. ↗

— Chief Joseph

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I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed. ↗

— Imran Khan

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