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When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.


Matt Groening


#important #important lesson #learned #lesson #sex

I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music.


Greg Ginn


#also #apart #authorities #group #i

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.


John T. Flynn


#code #could #distribution #etc #fascism

Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities.


Klaus Fuchs


#completely #contact #continuous #except #gave

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.


Henry James Sumner Maine


#certainly #doubt #engine #leave #lodged

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?


Alexei Navalny


#authorities #been #book #called #constitution

We have evidence that a number of Bahrainis who oppose our government are being trained in Syria. I have seen the files and we have notified the Syrian authorities, but they deny any involvement.


Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa


#authorities #being #deny #evidence #files

Writing, I'm convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.


Dan Simmons


#authorities #beyond #common #common sense #convinced

There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'


Stellan Skarsgard


#authorities #best #called #come #communist

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.


Tom Stoppard


#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom






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