In China, the problem is that with the system of censorship that's now in place, the user doesn't know to what extent, why, and under what authority there's been censorship. There's no way of appealing. There's no due process.
Rebecca MacKinnon
ProcessProblemPlaceKnowAuthority
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Denis Diderot
LawDecisionsLongRunAuthority
As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.
Nick Cave
LawMakeupBadAuthorityRealSee
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
Chris Hayes
TrustPersonKindAuthorityHuman
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.
Lawrence Kohlberg
EffortValuesMoralGroupAuthority
The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
Clare Short
WarSaidAuthorityBeenLiberalsHe
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
Francesco Guicciardini
GreatYouAuthorityBeyondMatter
I voted no on the resolution to give the president authority to go to war against Iraq. I was able to apply caveat emptor. Most of my colleagues could not.
Bob Graham
WarColleaguesResolutionAuthority
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.
Aeschylus
ManAuthorityAlwaysWhoseStern
The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.
Anthony Jeselnik
ProblemsDrivingDoingAuthority
The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles.
Edward Said
ParentsMeObstaclesKindAuthority
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.
William Temple
MenManAuthorityNothingAlwaysUp
Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.
Benjamin Watson
SinAuthorityReasonAbuseOur
I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.
Pink
GodThank GodAuthorityQuestionUp
For thousands of years, humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from deities to people.
Yuval Noah Harari
PeopleAuthorityYearsModernEra
Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.
Phil McGraw
TimeYouAuthorityRelationshipsGet
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
Vernon Jordan
JobChicagoAuthorityBusDriver
A museum's meticulous presentation - exhaustive captions, hushed lighting, state-of-the-art armature - creates an institutional authority that is constructed to seem impregnable.
Peter Landesman
MuseumAuthorityPresentationSeem
Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
Sam Graves
BusinessSmallSayingYouAuthority
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.
Shakti Gawain
PowerLookingAuthorityPersonal
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
Jim Morrison
PeaceYouAuthorityBecomeYour
One of the lasting consequences of the unrest of the late 1960s was the removal of adult authority from the lives of undergraduates at many colleges. And, as a consequence, residential communities developed much as students themselves wanted them to.
Parker Conrad
ConsequencesLateAuthorityAdult
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
Seamus Heaney
HomeAttitudeHabitAuthorityFigure
The Government Securities Act gave the Treasury Department some rulemaking authority over all government securities brokers and dealers. But the act also required these firms to register with the SEC.
Jerome Powell
GovernmentAuthorityOverActSome
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