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• No authority is higher than reality.

  Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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• In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

  Imran Khan

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  This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

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• My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

  Boris Johnson

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• Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

  Frederica Montseny

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• A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

  Frank Howard Clark

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• The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

  Benjamin Tucker

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• The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

  Benjamin Tucker

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• The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It’s essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

  Tom Stoppard

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• In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities.

  Gijs de Vries

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• The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

  Gijs de Vries

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• Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won’t be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

  Germaine Greer

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• In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

  Georges Jacques Danton

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• I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

  V. S. Naipaul

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• I don’t value authority. I don’t value the systems. I don’t value patriarchal religion. I don’t value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I’m not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

  Susan Powter

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• We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.

  George Pataki

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• Just because people are in authority, if it doesn’t seem right, don’t do it. If it violates your own principles, don’t do it.

  Steve Chabot

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• We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

  Sonny Landham

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• I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

  George Carlin

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• I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

  Sir Herbert Edward Read

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