Authority Quotes

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.

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Authority is no source for Truth.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you’re not in it, there’s a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

Authority forgets a dying king.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

The idea of God is the type and foundation of the principle of authority and absolutism, which it is our task to destroy or at least to subordinate wherever it manifests itself.

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch-that is, who should be listened to and when.

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the right to make a statement and to be heard.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

Authority is never without hate.

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims.

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority.

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.

No matter what authority Satan and his subjects have temporarily been allowed in this world system, Christ can pull rank anytime He wants to.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given the authority to do so, we would all be appalled.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

There is no authority but yourself.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.

Effective leaders are willing to use power and authority, but they're doing it in the service of the collective good, as opposed to self-aggrandizement.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it

Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.