Authority Quotes

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.

We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us with no other choice.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral authority to coordinate the activities of the classroom.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non-compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had seen that I was considering it.

Be yourself. Don't pretend that you know something you don't. Don't create the appearance of fake authority. Speak about the things you really care about.

It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish, they lack real spiritual authority.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

For as long as I can remember, I've been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and that doesn't make for an ideal religious follower.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.

Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere else without congressional authorization.

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.

You have authority over every storm you can sleep in

If we belong to Christ, Satan has no right to exercise authority over us, but he hopes we're too ignorant regarding Scripture to know it.

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.

There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine, that attacked (or 'limited') reason, which did not preach submission to the power of some authority.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.