“There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.” WorldReasonReligiousAuthorityCrisisWideColonialism Author:Mark Durie
“Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western way of life and is able to use the understanding, using legitimate Islamic sources to bring more scholarship to our way of life in the west. There's a need for that.” WayNeedsUseAbleUnderstandingReligiousSourceAuthorityCrisisWestWesternIslamicIndigenousScholarship Author:Mark Durie
“We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.” GrowsIndustryAuthorityCrisisClimateHostile Author:Kenneth P. Green
“Twilight of the Elites main thesis has been borne out far past what I could ever have imagined. The major idea was that these series of elite failures created this crisis of authority which was fertilizing distrust in the pillars and institutions of American society. In the absence of that authority there's this vacuum which is easily filled by authoritarian solutions, and I think that's exactly what happened.” ThinkingPastAuthoritySolutionsCrisisAbsenceTwilightDistrustThesis Author:Chris Hayes
“Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.” AuthorityCrisisCracksMeddling Author:Karl Marx
“There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.” IfsHas BeensLawGrowthAuthorityConstitutionCrisisClimate ChangeIncludingPopulationAbortionGlobal WarmingSevereCompulsoryPopulation GrowthPopulation Control Author:John Holdren
“The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won't be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it's only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.” PeopleWorldNeedsYearsAmericaFacesFightingCan DoRiskDangerWillingMonthsAuthorityCrisisThreatTyrannyOutcomesNsaDisclosureGovernment Spying Author:Edward Snowden
“The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It is a crisis of powerlessness in which our sole recourse is to call on the help and inward power of the Holy Spirit.” HelpingChristianSpiritChurchLevelsHolyAuthorityCrisisTheologyHoly SpiritSoleInwardPowerlessnessDogmaticRecourse Author:James K. Baxter