Authority Quotes

All authority belongs to the people... In questions of power let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief with chains of the Constitution.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

Engage with the Bible. Meditate on it day and night. Think and rethink about God's Word. Let it be your guide. Make it your go-to book for questions. Let it be the ultimate authority in your life.

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

While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the other, Mengestu tracks both themes with authority and feeling.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

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

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

God is the foundation of all authority, He exercises that foundation because He is the author and the owner of His creation. He is the foundation upon which all other authority stands or falls.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

Congress could always stop the President if Congress thinks that what the President has done exceeds the President's authority or is just wrong for the United States.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority

Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

The church has no authority to preach of inclusivity if we fear altering the look of our church by bringing in the poor.

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

They're all so much afraid of the Council that they're not afraid of anything else.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the people would develop plans of resistance and resort to arms.

Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

There will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived.

An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.

Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.

We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves.

Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of the public authority.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority.

If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the authority of those who rule over us.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.