Authority Quotes

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

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

Authority is quite degrading.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guaranty of human freedom to the American people.

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.

Spiritual growth requires the development of inner knowing and inner authority. It requires the heart, not the intellect.

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!

They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you are led by a halter.

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

No one can teach your child like you can. No nanny, Bible school teacher, aunt, or uncle has your authority. What a phenomenal privilege is yours.

I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven.

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

The inspiration and authority of the Bible is the bedrock upon which our faith is built. Without it, we are doomed to uncertainty, doubt, and a hopeless groping in the darkness of human speculation.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.