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In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
Georges Jacques Danton
Remains
Greatest
Scoundrels
Authority
Revolutions
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Golda Meir
Everybody
Poisons
Takes
Himself
Authority
Who
Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.
Greg Graffin
Science
Punk
Ideology
Consistent
Punk Rock
Pursuit
Idea
Rock
Scientist
Been
Authority
Goes
Taught
Different
Challenging
You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.
Greg Graffin
Religion
You
Creativity
Better
Challenge
Fire
Everything
Out
Bad
Inside
About
Had
Almost
Almost Everything
Look
Make
Exercise
Always
Question
Authority
Done
Where
Really
Challenged
Ever
Things
Desire
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.
Hannah Arendt
Day
Political
Defiance
Secular
World-Wide
One Day
Religious
Outstanding
Well
Decade
Authority
May
Established
Social
Event
Last
Last Decade
Phenomenon
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.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life
Art
Moral Authority
Be True
Eloquence
Secret
Virtue
Moral
Highest
True
Authority
Maxim
The Secret Of
Us
Let Us
The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of data without having any authority to dictate it.
Jaan Tallinn
Humanity
Made
Blockchain
Possible
About
Data
Having
Reach
Piece
Without
Dictate
Authority
Any
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Thing
Consensus
The NSA has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times a year since Congress gave it broad new powers in 2008.
Jared Polis
Broken
Privacy
Legal
Year
Congress
Gave
Broad
Rules
Thousands
Since
New
Powers
Times
Authority
The right solemnly proclaimed at the birth of the States, and which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in the bills of rights of the States subsequently admitted into the Union of 1789, undeniably recognizes in the people the power to resume the authority delegated for the purposes of Government.
Jefferson Davis
Government
Rights
People
Resume
Power
Birth
States
Has-Been
Admitted
Purposes
Been
Authority
Subsequently
Which
Proclaimed
Union
Bills
Right
Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.
John Mellencamp
Teacher
You
Fight
School
Long
Think
OK
High
High School
About
High School Teacher
Only
School Teacher
Talking
Authority
I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
John Mellencamp
Song
Think
Kidding
Entertain
Guy
Only
Wrote
Authority
Did
Who
You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.
John Piper
Life
God
You
Totally
Give
He
Over
Authority
Your
The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.
John Piper
You
Bible
Believe
Everything
Says
Examining
He
Without
Ultimate
Infallible
Pastor
Authority
Mean
Elders
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
Joseph Addison
Legal
Oppression
Lasting
Authority
Inflicted
Heavy
Which
Perversion
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.
Julie Andrews
Work
Woman
Money
Believe
Liberated
Like
Lean
Equal
She
Equal Work
Does
Am
Feminine
Male
Authority
Personally
Should
Paid
My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.
Lincoln Steffens
Me
Mistake
Father
Thought
Made
Parents
Everything
See
About
Somehow
He
Knew
Himself
Got
Making
Authority
Which
While
Serious
Right
Awkward
Position
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
Malcolm Forbes
Responsibility
Lose
Enjoy
Those
Merely
Like
Exercising
Get
Authority
Who
Awakenings occur when we lose faith in the viability of our institutions and the authority of our leaders. Religious and spiritual awakening gives people a new vision of themselves, which is then transplanted into social action.
Marilyn Ferguson
Faith
Spiritual
People
Vision
Lose
Action
Our
Religious
Gives
Leaders
New
Institutions
Occur
Authority
Viability
Which
Social
Themselves
Then
Transplanted
Awakening
The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.
Mark McKinnon
Vote
Money
Job
Citizens
Voice
Results
Deliver
Leaders
Days
Talks
Louder
Authority
Represent
Placed
Them
Elected
Interests
Who
Position
We have seen a degradation from the highest levels of authority politically in this nation, including through the department of justice, for the rule of law.
Matt Bevin
Justice
Law
Seen
Nation
Rule
Rule Of Law
Degradation
Through
Highest
Highest Levels
Authority
Department
Department Of Justice
Politically
Including
Levels
There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.
Nadine Gordimer
Moral Authority
Sacrifice
Moral
Like
Authority
Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Norman Douglas
First
Duty
Civic
Distrust
Be The First
Authority
Should
It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.
Rachel Maddow
People
Long
Own
Different Opinions
Fighting
Think
Out
About
Follows
Facts
Had
Nobody
Over
Accept
Calls
Opinions
Were
Sources
Trail
Authority
Establish
Different
Them
Used
Now
Credibility
Basic
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
Ralph Steadman
Good
Game
Good And Evil
World
Evil
Moral Authority
Rest
Changing
Channels
Relevant
Has-Been
Moral
About
More
Between
Opinion
Been
Than
Authority
Difference
Laid
Game Show
Show
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.
Robert Redford
Time
Family
Me
People
Made
Somebody
Seen
Trouble
Members
Restrictions
Had
Edgy
His
Years
Authority
Family Members
Conformity
Wasting
Earlier
To bear means to support the weight of that which is held. It is a sacred trust to bear the priesthood, which is the mighty power and authority of God.
Russell M. Nelson
God
Trust
Priesthood
Power
Bear
Sacred
Weight
Support
Authority
Which
Mighty
Held
Means
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