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• Folks, we're starting to learn more and more about that man arrested in the New York SUV car bombing case. His name is Faisal Shahzad. He's from Pakistan. What tipped off the authorities he might be the bomber? His name is Faisal Shahzad. He's from Pakistan.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Men, Names

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• Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Responsibility, Equality

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• Custom is a violent and treacherous school mistress. She, by little and lithe, slyly and unperceived, slips in the foot of her authority; but having by this gentle and humble beginning, with the benefit of time, fixed and established it, she then unmasks a furious and tyrannic countenance, against which we have no more the courage or the power so much as to lift up our eyes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Humble, School, Eye

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• Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

  Calvin Coolidge

  Leadership, Law, Example

  Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”

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• Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense that they have deprived their kids of the second parent, and so they tend to give in to the children's requests, even when unreasonable.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Children, Kids, Discipline

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• The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Ideas, Foundation, Principles

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (2007). “The Philosophy of Misery”, p.362, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

  Philip Sidney

  Strong, Glasses, Opinion

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.2

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• For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force...it is necessary to make a man better not by force but by persuasion. We neither have authority granted us by law to restrain sinners, nor, if it were, should we know how to use it, since God gives the crown to those who are kept from evil, not by force, but by choice.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Men, Law

  "On the Priesthood", Book II,

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• We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands and be held up before others. Spirits reveal themselves only to spirits. The most direct and concise method would be, in this case as well, to prove the possession of the only redeeming faith by good works.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Hands, Would Be, Peculiar

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• Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the businessman, by the professional killer. Being accustomed to a dry and dreary norm and sees in it an obvious sign of arrogance and aggression; viewing authority with almost religious awe he gets into a frenzy when he sees someone pluck the beard of his favorite prophet.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Religious, Arrogance, Dry

  "Science in a Free Society". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1978.

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• ... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion; the more they attempt to show themselves, the more they are entangled.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Lying, Persuasion, Shows

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• We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Criminals, Matter, Precedent

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• I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Book, Law, Lays

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• If I was not assured by the best authority on earth that the world is to be destroyed by fire, I should conclude that the day of destruction is at hand, but brought on by means of an agent very opposite to that of heat.

  Lewis Carroll

  Mean, Fire, Hands

  Lewis Carroll (2008). “The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Either we, as a society, decide that copyright is the greater value to society, and take active steps to give up private communications as a concept. Either that, or we decide that the ability to communicate in private, without constant monitoring by authorities, has the greater value - in which case copyright will have to give way.

  Rick Falkvinge

  Giving Up, Communication, Way

  "'Avast ye scurvy file sharers!': Interview with Swedish Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge". Wikinews Interview, June 20, 2006.

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• Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Sex, Men, Talking

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and reality, by L.E.L.”, p.95

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• Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job thanthey have done with their child.... But mostly mothers feel that their areas of competence are very much similar to those of the teacher. In fact they feel they know their child better than anyone else and that the teacher doesn't possess any special field of authority or expertise.

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

  Mother, Teacher, Jobs

  Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot (1978). “Worlds apart: relationships between families and schools”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• This is the essence of Kingdom Authority. Fathers can have no authority in the home until they have surrendered to the headship of Jesus. Mothers cannot pray with authority for their children when they have no submissive spirit to their own husbands. Pastors cannot lead, teach, or preach with anointing and supernatural power without being fully broken and surrendered to the lordship of Christ, the authority of the Word, and the commands of the Spirit.

  Adrian Rogers

  Mother, Jesus, Children

  Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.63, B&H Publishing Group

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• It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Destiny, Way, Discourse

  "Søren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers: Autobiographical, 1829-1848". Book by Søren Kierkegaard and Gregor Malantschuk, p. 226, Journals IV A 87 (1843), 1978.

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• But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Fighting, Rights

  War Message, delivered 2 April 1917

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• True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological argument, a perfect law, or a rational explanation. The Crucified revealed to the world that the real power that changes people and the world is an inner authority that comes from people who have lost, let go, and are re-found on a new level.

  Richard Rohr

  Letting Go, Real, Law

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• I believe we should follow the text of every law, even (a) law I disagree with, it's one of the real differences -- if you look at President Obama and the lawlessness, if he disagrees with a law he simply refuses to follow it or claims the authority to unilaterally change.

  Ted Cruz

  Change, Real, Believe

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• To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Eye, Thinking, Years

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• While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Nature, Freedom

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• I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

  Bill Ferguson

  Love, Columbia, Missouri

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