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“If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.”

Ifs Community Views Serious Authority Behavior Happenings Ordinary Scientist Fundamentals Disturbing Baltimore

Book:Challenges

Source: Challenges

“I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.”

People Opinion Pride Authority Ordinary Organization Teamwork Ordinary People

Author:Walt Disney

“The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.”

Democracy Citizens Authority Ordinary Importance Underestimated Ordinary Citizens

Book:A pocketful of pebbles

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.”

Ideas States Reason Law Justice Cases Sacrifice Ought Authority Ordinary Selling All Time Goods Farmers Urgent Utility Hinder

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“I was an ordinary boy at school, a young man. In fact, what did the headmaster once say? "You're constantly challenging those in authority; questioning and challenging those in authority." Which was not really the way I saw it. I felt there were questions that had to be answered, and things that weren't quite right.”

Men Way Facts School Young Felt Challenges Boys Saws Authority Ordinary Young Man Questioning Headmasters

Author:Kofi Annan

“There is all the difference in the world between the nonviolence that the ordinary Christian should embrace and the duty of civic authorities to police their communities. The end of Romans 12 is quite clear about the first; the start of Romans 13 is quite clear about the second.”

World Should Firsts Ends Christian Community Differences Clear Duty Authority Ordinary Police Embrace Nonviolence Civics Romans 12

Author:N. T. Wright

“By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.”

Helping Government Too Much Protect Authority Ordinary Abuse Constitution Abuse Of Power Too Much Power

Author:John Roberts

“Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.”

Men Given Authority Ordinary Willingness Expertise Qualifications Worthiness Priesthood Ordinary Man Ordination

Author:David A. Bednar

“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.”

“The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!”

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Book:The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress

Source: The works of Alexander Hamilton: comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military. Published from the original manuscripts deposited in the Department of State, by order of the Joint Library Committee of Congress