Authority Quotes

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.

I am a scholar of stupidity, so thanks for existing.

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

Authority and example lead the world.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority and most of all work like a dog.

When we undertake to cover our sins, . . . behold, the heavens withdraw themselves; the Spirit of the Lord is grieved; and when it is withdrawn, Amen to the priesthood or the authority of that man

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

The practice of all ages and all countries (whether Christian or heathen, polite or barbarous) hath been ... to do honour to those who are invested with public authority.

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

To say on the authority of the Bible that God does a thing no honourable man would do, is to lie against God; to say that it is therefore right, is to lie against the very spirit of God.

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

I fight authority and authority always wins.

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.

In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel.

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

In varying degrees, the authority of the dharma was replaced by the authority of the guru, who came, in some traditions, to assume the role of the Buddha himself.

I think the approach to Islam as a tradition is helpful. Tradition helps us to focus on questions about authority and temporality, and about the language used in relation to the two.

How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself?