Quotes About Authorities

For months we had been talking of him and him alone, and yet it was difficult to believe in his existence — he was more like a legend to us — and quite a few of us were convinced that the authorities had invented him, him and his elephants, to distract attention from the political unrest that was the real cause of trouble in the Oule country.

Once The Evergreens and then the Homestead opened their doors to Mabel Todd, emotions—a lethal mix of passion, jealousy and rage—erupted during the last years of the poet's life, perpetuated by descendants and the authorities they co-opted or persuaded.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

Indeed, for social solidarity to take widespread hold, it may be especially important that elites—the "rich," the "learned," and the "authorities"—undergo their share of the suffering

would strain credibility that such privileges would be awarded to an intelligence defector who had refused to cooperate with Russian authorities.

The counsel on public relations, after examination of the sources of established beliefs, must either discredit the old authorities or create new authorities by making articulate a mass opinion against the old belief or in favor of the new.

It was becoming somewhat more difficult, too, to open a "public house" or tavern for the sale of liquor. Municipal authorities now requested applicants for a license to present a certificate attesting they were "of good life & Conversation and fitt to keep such a house.

Be aware, as the law is mostly for the public, not the republic authorities; similarly, as the rules of the United Nations, are only for its methodical members, not for the veto holders. Accordingly, the teeth of an elephant define that in suitably and relevantly context since children feel happy and enjoy it in a circus, without realizing the reality, even parents pay for it. Indeed, it is an authentic fact.

Only a law can do nothing if the lawyers and authorities stay dishonest and corrupt.

Ordinaries, that church law was above the reach of the secular authorities. He was now an outsider, still officially secretary

But the Puritan women had crossed a large ocean in very small ships to get to America, and many of them were not feeling particularly deferential. When the residents of Chebacco, a town near Gloucester, decided they wanted to build their own meetinghouse, the men went off to Boston to petition the local authorities for permission. While they were gone, the women built the meetinghouse themselves.

The irony didn't escape her, that after years of reading with fascination about swindlers and cheats caught by the authorities, she should be the victim of one. Crime lost a great deal of its appeal when it happened to you.

Romero is a prophet, saint, and martyr for our time. His death, like that of Jesus of Nazareth, was the dramatic conclusion of a life lived in fidelity to God that brought him into conflict with the political authorities of his nation.

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Empires exist for the benefit of the parent state. That, and the fact that the colonists eventually came to appreciate this truth, goes a long way toward explaining the origins of the American Revolution. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the authorities in London, the seat of Great Britain's empire,

Los crímenes «perfectos» raras veces se producían, pero los había. Normalmente no se debían al gran talento de los criminales sino a la ineptitud continuada de las autoridades, y en general se definían por la cuestión prosaica de si el autor salía impune o no.

El fin, pues, mayor y principal de los hombres que se unen en comunidades políticas y se ponen bajo el gobierno de ellas, es la preservación de su propiedad;

The problem is that even top psychiatrists failed to identify them as real threats. And it's not as though psychiatrists lack incentives to get the diagnosis right. Beyond their reputation, professional pride, and desire to help, psychiatrists also have a legal obligation to inform authorities of threats. Families of the Aurora movie theater victims sued Holmes' psychiatrist for not recommending that his patient be confined.

But until a theoretical explanation -based on human choice – for self-organized and self-governed enterprises is fully developed and accepted, major policy decisions will continue to be undertaken with a presumption that individuals cannot organize themselves and always need to be organized by external authorities.

All around him were stacks of books in Arabic on mathematics, astronomy, astrology, physics, and philosophy by various Greek and Arabic authorities. They included many works by Aristotle that no one in western Europe had opened in six hundred years.

The only thing was that, once the $100,000 cash bail was raised, pig judge Murtagh refused to release him or any of the others. We were furious and helpless.

Entendemos que escribir es un acto pecaminoso, al principio contra los grandes modelos, enseguida contra nuestros padres, y pronto, indefectiblemente, contra las autoridades.

In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.

My mother used to leave me and my brother in the house by ourselves. The authorities came and got us. It took a year or two to get us back with my grandmother.