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Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting. -- Alain Robert
Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on. -- Simon Sinek
The holy scriptures as well as the local and General Authorities of the Church provide a safety net of counsel and guidance for the people of the Church. -- James E. Faust
A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got suspicious when they saw guys going to work out at a Zumba dance studio. -- Jay Leno
We dream of an India where development is the result of all Chief Ministers, the Prime Minister, state Ministers, Union Ministers working together with even Local Body Authorities as one team, a strong and united Team India. -- Narendra Modi
Authorities say brain cells may shrink, but they don't necessarily die. Frankly, I am cheered by the fact that something is shrinking. I'd be even more thrilled if what was shrinking affected my dress size, but you can't have everything. -- Erma Bombeck
Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment when officials informed President Bush the Holland Tunnel was safe. Bush then thanked the Dutch authorities for all their help. -- Jay Leno
We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. -- Lucretia Mott
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. -- Voltaire
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication. -- Barry Eisler
In the fight against terrorism, national agencies keep full control over their police forces, security and intelligence agencies and judicial authorities. -- Gijs de Vries
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
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
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
We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks. -- Janet Yellen
Trade wars aren't started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another country's industries. -- Ron Wyden
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
The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities. -- Susana Martinez
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny. -- Henry James Sumner Maine
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. -- John Reed
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character. -- Mel Brooks
Since that time I have had continuous contact with the persons who were completely unknown to me, except that I knew they would hand whatever information I gave them to the Russian authorities. -- Klaus Fuchs
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder. -- Simone Weil
2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the Constitution in the name of public safety, after 2008, authorities went in the other direction. -- Matt Taibbi
It is understandable that the Fed injects cash to avoid the collapse of the stock market, but basically it is bad policy for monetary authorities to intervene to save speculators from bankruptcy. This is not their role. -- Maurice Allais
The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution. -- Lauryn Hill
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities. -- Ai Weiwei
We will use all lawful tools at our disposal, and that includes authorities under the renewed PATRIOT Act. We firmly believe that our intelligence gathering tools must enable us to collect the information we need to protect the American people. -- John O. Brennan
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. -- Rod Taylor
The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities. -- Jose Rizal
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. -- Tom Stoppard
Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself. -- Richard P. Feynman
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. -- Karl Marx
When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends. -- Laozi
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians. -- Randall Munroe
The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities. -- Gijs de Vries
If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior. -- Joseph Joubert
Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world! -- Roger Bacon
I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back. -- Bill Ferguson
Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders. -- John Culberson
Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders -- John Culberson
We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification. -- Cofer Black
I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities. -- Rand Paul
The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities. -- Nikolai Gogol
I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath. -- Joe Royle
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. -- Thomas Jefferson
I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had. -- Sam Sheppard
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another. -- Mahmoud Abbas
God is all powerful.God is mighty.God is has power over all rulers and authorities. -- Laillah Gifty Akita
We passed important laws to give the authorities responsible for investigation wide powers to defend us. -- George Pataki
The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities. -- George P. Bush
I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend. -- Kenny Cunningham
There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims. -- Robert Spencer
The NSA has different reporting requirements for each branch of government and each of its legal authorities. -- Barton Gellman
All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice. -- Ada Louise Huxtable
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. -- Bertrand Russell
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found -- Bertrand Russell
They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night. -- Edward Snowden
The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed. -- Jackie Chan
Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. -- Cyril Connolly
We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves. -- John Prescott
PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters. -- Ambrose Bierce
If you see something suspicious, don't just walk by. Notify authorities. Get help. You could save innocent lives. -- Marsha Blackburn
We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. -- Germaine Greer
Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals. -- Wang Jianlin
The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience. -- Hans Denck
Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities? -- George Phillips Bond
Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens. -- Walter Benjamin
Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities. -- Katharina Zell
This is the darkest hour before dawn and we should never underestimate monetary authorities' ability to deal with the adversity. -- Gideon Gono
Whatever happened after the liberation of Krajina, this was in no way a violation of human rights by Croatian authorities. -- Franjo Tudjman
I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities. -- Lisa Yuskavage
Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil. -- Leigh Steinberg
These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism. -- John T. Flynn
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone. -- Evgeny Morozov
In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never. -- Anthony Daniels
If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane. -- Alva Myrdal
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 authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible. -- Nelson Mandela
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
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
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
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
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
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect. -- William P. Young
The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well. -- Elia Suleiman
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
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
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
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 objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition of modern genocide. -- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration. -- Igor Luksic
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
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
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
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
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
The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly, identified and removed. -- Donald Trump
Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval of the ecclesiastical authorities. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Polling only works in a country without a depressed, frightened populace. Where the public trusts authorities enough to tell them the truth without fear of retribution. -- Rick Perlstein
The Government of the United States would be constrained to hold the Imperial German government to a strict accountability for such acts of their naval authorities. -- Woodrow Wilson
Italian authorities seized $6 trillion worth of fake, worthless U.S. Treasury bonds. Pretty good counterfeit job, too. They look just like the genuine, worthless Treasury bonds. -- Jay Leno
If the civil authorities refuse to protect me, I must look to God, and if I die, I have determined to make my grave in Alton. -- Elijah Parish Lovejoy
Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will step in. -- George Soros
I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the nation, or its regular functionaries. -- Thomas Jefferson
For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is. -- Rio Ferdinand
We sincerely ask the Beijing authorities across the Strait to view the election result from a positive perspective, to accept the democratic decision of the Taiwanese people. -- Chen Shui-bian
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived. -- Robert A. Heinlein
It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it. -- John B. Quigley
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities face the complicated task of stabilising and reviving a devastated economy after years of regional conflicts, international isolation and economic mismanagement. -- Stanley Fischer
As president, I will appoint tough, independent authorities to strengthen anti-trust enforcement and really scrutinize mergers and acquisitions, so the big don't keep getting bigger and bigger. -- Hillary Clinton
The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide. -- Kurt Vonnegut
In Northern Estonia, the Soviet authorities didn't have a recipe on how to fight against the popularity of Finnish TV. Audiences didn't want to watch hardcore Soviet propaganda. -- Jaak Kilmi
If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving. -- Manmohan Singh
In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans. -- Edward Kennedy
... 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
Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust. -- John Stossel

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