Authority Quotes
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
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 man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
The space you occupy and the authority you exercise may be measured with mathematical exactness by the service you render.
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.
'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority.
There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.
The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.
If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.
Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.
The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.
Whoever functions in an office or calling received from one who holds priesthood keys exercises priesthood authority in performing her or his assigned duties.
He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.
The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty.
Whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however, innocent it may be in itself.
A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.
Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.
The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.
Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.
A new State of Israel with broad frontiers, strong and solid, with the authority of the Israel Government extending from the Jordan to the Suez Canal.
We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.
What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.
