Authority Quotes
For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.
Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.
I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.
Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured.
If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not.
The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.
Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
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.
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition.
Within the next hundred years...nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority... National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all.
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises of the civil authority.
I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.
No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.
Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
No power but Congress can declare war, but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war?
I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.
The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.
To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.
Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetuated by legitimate authority, they also regard violence against certain kinds of people as inherently legitimate, no matter who commits it.
The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.
You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!
But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.
I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.
When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.
Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.
Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.
Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion.
We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.
I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.