Authority
As the head of the Church in India the Catholicos presides over the Holy Episcopal Synod of Jacobite Syrian Christian Church.
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Famous quotes containing the word authority:
“Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.”
—Michel Foucault (1926–1984)
“Contact with men who wield power and authority still leaves an intangible sense of repulsion. It’s very like being in close proximity to faecal matter, the faecal embodiment of something unmentionable, and you wonder what it is made of and when it acquired its historically sacred character.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.”
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