Authority Quotes

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

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.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

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.

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.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

Honor is a harder master than the law.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

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.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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.

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

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.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

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.

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

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.

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

I've always had trouble with authority.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.

They, who would combat general authority with particular opinion, must first establish themselves a reputation of understanding better than other men.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

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.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Power without authority is tyranny.

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

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.

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.

[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.