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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.


Bryant H. McGill


#control #destroy #enemy #freedoms #greatest

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


John Mellencamp


#authority #fight #high #high school #high school teacher

The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.


Phillip Noyce


#authority #because #convinced #disdain #good

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.


Charles Hodge


#assent #authority #canons #clergy #constitution

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.


Charles Hodge


#apostolic #authority #body #church #churches

I've never been any good with authority.


Rupert Everett


#authority #been #good #i #never

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.


Elena Kagan


#assertion #authority #clinton #constitutional #directive

There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#first #god #oppressive #orthodox #positively

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.


Irving R. Kaufman


#come #contain #costume #could #designer

In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.


Lincoln Kirstein


#absolute freedom #anarchy #anxious #aristocratic #authority






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