Authority Quotes

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without passion, and it is therefore preferable to any individual.

Once we meet our children, even for moments, in a place of "I don't know," of relinquished authority, we return to the realms of mystery and magic, where real connection becomes alive again.

Sometimes a decision has to be made by a single individual, who has the authority to enforce it. That's why you need a captain. You can't run a ship by a committee-at least not all the time.

Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

Government is the assumption of authority over a given area and all within it, exercised generally for the double purpose of more complete oppression of its subjects and extension of its boundaries.

Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry.

My mother was an authority on pig sties. This is the worst looking pigsty I have ever seen in my life, and I want it cleaned up right now.

For them that must obey authority/That they do not respect in any degree/Who despise their jobs, their destinies/Speak jealously of them that are free

Mouths talk without authority sometimes.

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation.

The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.

Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: "Who am I?"

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.

A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it speaks and sings with rare confidence and authority.

One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

To have a pure heart, we must submit all thoughts to the authority of Christ. If we are willing to do that, he will change us to be like him.

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils because they are booby traps.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

The Constitution gives the president of the United States an extraordinarily wide grant of authority to use the power of the pardon.

As the capacity to coerce declines, it is natural to turn to control of opinion as the basis for authority and domination - a fundamental principle of government already emphasized by David Hume.

A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.

The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in.

It seems to be my destiny to discourse on truth, insofar as I discover it, in such a way that all possible authority is simultaneously demolished.