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We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

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.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

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.

The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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.

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

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

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.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

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.

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.

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.