Authority Quotes

God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.

Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature.

One thing is clear - demons know they must submit to the superior authority in the name of Jesus Christ!

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause everyone thinks they're in power.

All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.

We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution.

Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.

The wisest have the most authority.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.

It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership.