Authority Quotes

Authority forgets a dying king.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

All authority belongs to the people.

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.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive from those in authority over me.

An Old World revolution is only a movement around a motionless center; it never breaks out of the circle. Firm in the center is belief in Authority.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. You are only young once, then you need another reason to act foolish. You are the only authority on what is best for you.

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.

Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

The authority of a belief imposed by religion surely destroys the discovery of reality.One relies on authority because one is afraid to stand alone.

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.

To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority.

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.