#authority

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion. ↗

— John Acton

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It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America. ↗

— John Abizaid

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To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that. ↗

— Hank Azaria

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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. ↗

— Lao Tzu

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We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today. ↗

— Gray Davis

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