Quotes of: Moral-authority Keyword

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Richard Dawkins

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

Joyce Meyer

I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life.

Anne Michaels

It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.

Al Franken

It's impossible to live in peace with your inner-self without appointing integrity as the author of your daily decisions and actions.

Edmond Mbiaka

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

Frank A. Clark

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?

George Phillips Bond

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

Cornelia Funke

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

Jane Asher

Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.

John Ashcroft

Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all.

Jane Birkin

Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.

Cate Blanchett

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

Cofer Black

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Charles Churchill

An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Gustave Flaubert

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

George Pataki

I have so many favorite authors; I can't name just one.

Gena Showalter

Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn.

Jayce O'Neal

Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.

James Jeffrey Roche

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Denis Diderot