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Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.
— Richard P. Feynman
I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
— Vijay Mallya
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
— Kate Adie
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
— Barry Eisler
Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
— Wang Jianlin
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found
— Bertrand Russell
The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.
— Russell Baker
Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces
— Sunday Adelaja
The written word is assumed to have been reflected upon and revised by its author, reviewed by authorities and editors.
— Neil Postman
Wherever you may be, the moment you draw the attention of the authorities, the best thing you can do is disappear in a hurry.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.
— Cofer Black
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.
— Germaine Greer
Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it ... Hilarious.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
So if ketosis is so desirable, then why has there been such deafening silence or even fierce negativity on the subject from health authorities?
— Eric C. Westman
I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.
— Bill Cosby
Life emerged so swiftly, in fact, that some authorities think it must have had help - perhaps a good deal of help.
— Bill Bryson
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.
— Leigh Steinberg
The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.
— Randall Munroe
We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us.
— George Pataki
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
— Matt Groening
The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.
— Hans Denck
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
— Nikolai Gogol
But because of the religious element in our message, and the desire of the authorities not to offend our religious
— Maajid Nawaz
In short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted
— Charles Dickens
We ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.
— Ignatius Of Loyola
We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.
— Michael Shermer
In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
— E.B. White
given them information in the past, they've turned it over to government authorities, and the information
— Scott Pratt
Without any appeal to books, to laws, or to authorities of any kind, it was enough to accept God as a father, to regard slavery as a crime. I
— Frederick Douglass
We often miss the irony that the same Paul who writes "submit to the authorities" goes to jail and is condemned for subverting the authorities! He
— Shane Claiborne
If you have problems with your earthly authorities it may be probably because you have not been praying enough for your leaders
— Sunday Adelaja
Sure, swing your oscillating dick over there, and see how long you last before she runs screaming for the authorities.
— J.A. Belfield
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities.
— Franjo Tudjman
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.
— Evgeny Morozov
true church, whilst the authorities appeared ever more indulgent to the unChristian pastimes
— Tristram Hunt
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.
— Thomas Jefferson
The more it (vaccination) is supported by public authorities, the more will its dangers and disadvantages be concealed or denied.
— M. Beddow Bayly
Many a criminal has finally given himself over to the authorities because the accusations of a guilty conscience were worse than prison bars.
— Billy Graham
When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.
— Ruud Gullit
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.
— Ada Louise Huxtable
Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.
— Walter Benjamin
They had a relaxed look about them, appropriate for people going to a peaceful demonstration sanctioned by the authorities.
— Naguib Mahfouz
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
— Bertrand Russell
I cannot here give references and authorities for my several statements; and I must trust to the reader reposing some confidence in my accuracy.
— Charles Darwin
If you see something suspicious, don't just walk by. Notify authorities. Get help. You could save innocent lives.
— Marsha Blackburn
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
— Alain Robert
What Mexico City cannot do and my country cannot do is to allow us to be intimidated, the authorities to be intimidated, by organized crime.
— Enrique Pena Nieto
He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.
— Martin Luther
The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.
— Jackie Chan
A good leader is known by 'his qualities' not 'his authorities'.
— Abdulazeez Henry Musa
The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.
— William Ralph Inge
Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.
— Katharina Zell
I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.
— Robert Benchley
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
— Mahmoud Abbas
All [the authorities] did was to guard the distant and invisible interests of distant and invisible masters
— Franz Kafka
When Jesus talks about conflict with "principalities and powers," he's talking about conflict with legal and political authorities.
— Richard Beck
In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives.
— Sam Keen
Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders.
— John Culberson
I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.
— Lisa Yuskavage
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
— Robert Peel
I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.
— Adrienne Rich
Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
— Cyril Connolly
As the religious authorities often say, the institution is human, while the substance of the religion is transcendent.
— Thomas Moore
I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day
until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions. — Sigmund Freud
until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions. — Sigmund Freud
PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.
— Ambrose Bierce
The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities.
— Thomas Moore
Authorities tend to frown on things they can't fit into a neat little box.
— Tera Lynn Childs
I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.
— Kenny Cunningham
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
— Alva Myrdal
Authorities often exploit their subordinates for their own benefit while believing they are perfectly just.
— Jonathan Haidt
Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow
— Henry Paulson
We be decent thieves, not some politicals. We didn't try to attack the authorities. We was only stealing.
— Andrzej Sapkowski
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities.
— Barton Gellman
The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities.
— George P. Bush
Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?
— George Phillips Bond
This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity.
— Gideon Gono
There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims.
— Robert Spencer
The barbarians never take a city until someone holds the gates open to them. And it's your own multicultural authorities who will do it for you
— Christopher Hitchens
I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.
— Samuel Butler
To be free to achieve our most cherished goals we need authorities we can trust, assent to, and make our own.
— R. R. Reno
The authorities aren't always up to the job.
— Bill Roorbach
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
The room is in shocked silence. Can this really be true? Can the authorities kill off everyone at the press of a button?
— Siobhan Davis
My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.
— Leigh Newman