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“Contrary to what we, the people, have been told, we are the power; we have supreme authority because we are the masses and true power always resides with the masses, never with the global elite who, by their very nature, have always been a vulnerable minority and will always continue to be...As long as the masses realize that, of course.”

People Long Has Beens Courses Realizing Authority Mass Contrary Supreme Vulnerable Minorities Elites True Power

Author:James Morcan

“[Management] has authority only as long as it performs.”

Long Authority Management

Author:Peter Drucker

“So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a God who is the epitome of both, and by telling yourself that you are created in the Image and Likeness of God, you have given yourself the moral authority to demonstrate both. You love and hate in the name of God.”

Believe Long Two Hate Names Given Sides Moral Authority Terror Ecstasy Love And Hate Epitome Moral Authority

Book:Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

Source: Tomorrow's God: Our Greatest Spiritual Challenge

“It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to Heaven for the acts of the State, - ideas long locked in the breast of solitary thinkers, and hidden among Latin folios, - burst forth like a conqueror upon the world they were destined to transform, under the title of the Rights of Man... and the principle gained ground, that a nation can never abandon its fate to an authority it cannot control.”

Men World Mind Long Ideas States America Heaven Nations Principles Fate Rights Ought Authority Responsible Titles Breasts Abandon Latin Thinker Locked Solitary Destined Conqueror

Author:Lord Acton

“Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal of his candles on a rejoicing night, let her look to him and keep him out of harm's way; or the world will be apt to say, she has a mind to be a widow before her time. She ought, in such cases, to exert the authority of the curtain lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious disposition, to tame him, as they do birds of prey, by dinning him in the ears all night long.”

Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator

“We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.”

People Long Running Opinion Principles Authority Long Runs Parliament Personal Freedom

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Unlike liberalism, with its fundamental belief in the long-range power of ideas, conservatism is bound by the stock of ideas inherited at a given time. And since it does not really believe in the power of argument, its last resort is generally a claim to superior wisdom, based on some self-arrogated superior quality.”

Believe Long Doe Ideas Self Lasts Belief Given Quality Authority Argument Claims Fundamentals Bounds Superiors Range Liberalism Resorts Conservatism Power Of Ideas

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful”

Ifs Firsts Wells Long Self Universe Belief Causes Secret Successful Authority Tasks Constitution Secret To Success Self Trust

Book:The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In matters of philosophy and science authority has ever been the great opponent of truth. A despotic calm is usually the triumph of error. In the republic of the sciences sedition and even anarchy are beneficial in the long run to the greatest happiness of the greatest number.”

Long Matter Philosophy Running Numbers Authority Errors Calm Triumph Opponents Republic Anarchy Long Runs Beneficial

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.”

Long Speech Authority Freedom Of Speech Lebanese

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

“My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells Looks Long Use Might Lasts Night Left Opinion Morning Air Son Ought Giving Up Authority Picks Claims Breaths Rate Handle Bread My Son Stolen Never Giving Up Last Night Loan

Author:Halldór Laxness

“The impulse to perfection cannot exist where the definition of perfection is the arbitrary decision of authority. That which is born in loneliness and from the heart cannot be defended against the judgment of a committee of sycophants. The volatile essences which make literature cannot survive the clichés of a long series of story conferences.”

Heart Long Stories Literature Born Decision Loneliness Authority Judgment Perfection Essence Series Definitions Impulse Committees Conferences Arbitrary Sycophants

Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.”

Men Long Past Steps Progress Authority Depth Realms Assumption Superiority Aggravated

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The most famous self-made man in the world today is our own Edison. Talk with Mr. Edison and he will tell you he owes much if not most of his success to omnivorous reading. Forbes is one of his favorite publications. How closely he reads it can be gathered from a letter just received from him in which he asks the editor to forward a long analytical letter to the writer of a series of articles which contained two figures Mr. Edison questions, and he wants to know exactly on what authority or investigation they were based. Both letters were the product of Mr. Edison and were signed by him.”

“Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.”

“No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from God and that religion is to be propagated by force of arms.”

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Author:John Locke

“I always feel bad for those who, in a sense, cede their authority to others, let others make major decisions about their life and actually believe them. When you're tiny, you have no choice. But as soon as your mind starts working, you pretty well figure it out. And you realize you're a hostage until you're old enough to leave. But as long as you have that goal - I will get out of here - you'll be OK.”

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Author:Rita Mae Brown

“There is a long tradition in China for writers and journalists to take pen names, partly as protection from retaliation by authorities. If Facebook requires the use of real names, that could potentially put Chinese citizens in danger.”

Ifs Long Real Use Names Danger Citizens Authority Tradition China Protection Chinese Journalist Pens Retaliation

Author:Michael Anti

“On the pilgrim's path each man must become Moses, going on a vision quest to some mountaintop and returning with the ten or twenty commandments that he holds sacred. So long as we obey or break the rules that have been set up for us by the Giants - Parents and other Authorities - we remain good or bad children. Growing into the fullness of our humanity means that we become co-authors of the rules by which we will agree to have our lives judged.”

Men Mean Children Long Has Beens Humanity Parent Vision Break Path Our Lives Growing Ten Authority Twenties Agree Sacred Giants Judged Quests Commandments Fullness Moses Pilgrim Growing Children

Author:Sam Keen

“Until the 1930s, the Constitution served as a major constraint on federal economic interventionism. The government's powers were understood to be just as the framers intended: few and explicitly enumerated in our founding document and its amendments. Search the Constitution as long as you like, and you will find no specific authority conveyed for the government to spend money on global-warming research, urban mass transit, food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, or countless other items in the stimulus package and, even without it, in the regular federal budget.”

“For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.”

Long Problem Games Taken Football Authority Racism England Refuse Acknowledge

Author:Rio Ferdinand

“Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.”

Long Stills Figures Fame Authority Long Time Realising Authority Figures

Author:Cyndi Lauper

“For as long as I can remember, I've been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and that doesn't make for an ideal religious follower.”

Kind Persons Long I Can Remember Religious Authority Ideals Followers Grain

Author:Amber Heard

“The American experiment, the United States in the past eight years [2008-2016] was not considered worthy of leading, because we had committed too many transgressions. We didn't have the moral authority to lead anybody because we had too many injustices in our past and too many discriminations and too many thises and thats and so forth. We were not worthy of leading, and we had been leading for too long in all the wrong directions. It was really, I think, despicable.”

“The terms of the 2008 constitution [which ensures the military will continue to be the ultimate authority] could not benefit Burma in the long run. I think this constitution should be revised.”

Thinking Should Long Running Term Military Authority Benefits Ultimate Constitution Long Runs Burma

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“There have been lots and lots of fatwas against violence. But it is an interesting question. A Mufti is the person that issues the fatwa and you'll find Muftis at all the Madrasas. Basically once you've studied for long enough you have the authority to issue a fatwa. But there are limits. I can bang on and on on the point but all I'm really saying is that there isn't a simple answer.”

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Author:Sadakat Kadri

“It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.”

People Thinking Long Different Facts Used Fighting Accepting Opinion Source Authority Used To Be Trails Credibility Different Opinions

Author:Rachel Maddow

“Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.”

Thinking Long School Fighting Talking Teacher Authority High School School Teachers High School Teachers

Author:John Mellencamp

“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.”

People Long Motivational Leadership Business Policy Authority Decided Management Surround Interfere Surround Yourself Delegates Surround Yourself With People Delegation Top Management Surround Yourself With Good People Surround Yourself With Positive People

Author:Ronald Reagan

“I doubt she likes the idea of seeing him put back in a cage.” “Maybe not,” he said. “But she knows that the Authority are the only people who might be able to help him.” “Or kill him,” I said. “That too. What is life without risk?” “Long?” Terric laughed, a sort of high whooping that made me—and Zayvion, much to my surprise—smile. Contagious. For all he had a serious exterior, Terric was the guy you’d want to sit next to at a funny movie, just to hear him laugh.”

People Knows Want Long Made Said Ideas Helping Might Able Guy Next Laughing Doubt Seeing Risk Serious Authority Surprise Likes Laughed Cages Contagious Exterior What Is Life

Author:Devon Monk

“He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!”

Long Might Can Do History Authority Long Life

Author:Gottfried Benn

“Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.”

Long Power Authority Injustice Duration

Author:Seneca the Younger

“That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.”

Long Has Beens Science Opinion Mines Higher Authority England Neglected

Book:Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).

Source: Reflections on the Decline of Science in England: And on Some of Its Causes, by Charles Babbage (1830). To which is Added On the Alleged Decline of Science in England, by a Foreigner (Gerard Moll) with a Foreword by Michael Faraday (1831).

“By nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice.”

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Published by Order of Congress from the Original Manuscripts Deposited in the Department of State