Authority Quotes
Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.
Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books.
Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.
Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances.
Worry is a subtle way of telling God that He's fallen asleep at the wheel and that things aren't under His authority, but ours.
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.
I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.
Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.
Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.
Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
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.
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.
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.
The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about guns. It is about freedom.
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.
You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.
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.
A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.
It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.
To name the world in your own terms, to tell your own story, is an act of authority and power. When you write, you are saying, in effect, 'I have a voice. I have a story. This is what I have to say.'
For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.
Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies.
The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.
Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men
The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.