quotes about Authority
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No moral system can rest solely on authority.
-- A.J. AyerSource : Humanist Outlook (1968) introduction
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It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
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An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.
-- AeschinesSource : "Dictionary of Quotations (classical)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle. Ctesiphontem, 147, 1897.
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Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
-- Alan Moore -
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I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.
-- Alan ThickeSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
-- Albert Meltzer -
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
-- Alex Kapranos -
It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
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A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.
-- Amy Chua -
Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.
-- Andy Stanley -
By disobeying god, we escape from his totalitarian prison where you cannot ask any questions, where you must never question authority. We become our human selves,
-- Ann Druyan -
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The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
-- Ann Macbeth -
The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.
-- Anthony Jeselnik -
I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.
-- Arthur Keith -
Authority and example lead the world.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
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After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
-- Augustus -
When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.
-- Augustus William Hare -
Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.
-- Ayn Rand -
We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.
-- Barbara Jordan -
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If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.
-- Barbara Walters -
War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.
-- Benjamin TuckerSource : Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1970). “Liberty”
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There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.
-- Bernard Law Montgomery -
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What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I write because I have authority from life to do so.
-- Bessie Head -
Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His will and direction, even when the direction might not have been our personal preference.
-- Beth Moore -
Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.
-- Beth Moore -
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The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.
-- Beth Moore -
Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.
-- Beth MooreSource : Beth Moore (2007). “Breaking Free: Discover the Victory of Total Surrender”, p.42, B&H Publishing Group
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Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
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You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.
-- Byron Dorgan -
I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
-- Callie Khouri -
Experience is, for me, the highest authority.
-- Carl Rogers -
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If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.
-- Carl Sagan -
One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'
-- Carl Sagan -
The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law.
-- Caspar David Friedrich -
The People adore authority.
-- Charles BaudelaireSource : Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.32, Courier Corporation
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The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
-- Chief JosephSource : North American Review, Apr. 1879
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My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
-- Chris HayesSource : "Chris Hayes: From 'Up' In The Morning To 'All In' At Night". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 26, 2013.
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The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.
-- Chris HedgesSource : Chris Hedges, Laila Al-Arian (2013). “Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians”, p.18, Nation Books
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We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world...
-- Chuck ToddSource : Source: www.nbcnews.com
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The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.
-- Clare ShortSource : "Today" with John Humphrys, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2004.
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Do you question my authority? I am the headmistress of Evernight!" It was Balthazar who answered her by casually slinging his crossbow back upon his shoulder so that it just happened to be aimed straight at Mrs. Bethany. He wasn't threatening her, exactly, but it was very clear that he wasn't going to back down. As she jerked upright in shock, Balthazar drawled, "School's out.
-- Claudia Gray -
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
-- Cornelius CardewSource : Cornelius Cardew, Richard Barrett (2006). “Cornelius Cardew: A Reader”
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But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.
-- Dan Abnett -
Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.
-- Deborah Tannen -
I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.
-- Denis Leary -
I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
-- Don Rickles -
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Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.
-- Elisabeth Elliot -
How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.
-- Emma Goldman -
We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.
-- Eric MetaxasSource : Eric Metaxas (2013). “Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.
-- Erich Fromm -
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New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
-- Euripides -
If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.
-- Evgeny Morozov -
Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
-- Federica Montseny -
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
-- Francesco Guicciardini -
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
-- Frank A. Clark -
All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.
-- Frank ChodorovSource : Frank Chodorov, Charles H. Hamilton (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.
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I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.
-- Franklin Pierce -
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As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.
-- Fredrik Bajer -
The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.
-- G. C. Berkouwer -
You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait.
-- Gangaji -
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
-- Gary Hamel -
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Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.
-- Gary Zukav -
I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
-- Gene Hackman -
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
-- George Q. Cannon -
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.
-- George TenetSource : "George Tenet: At the center of the storm". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. April 25, 2007.
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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.
-- Georges Bataille -
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
-- Georges Danton -
They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.
-- Gerald MasseySource : Gerald Massey (1998). “The natural genesis, or, second part of A book of the beginnings: containing an attempt to recover and reconstitute the lost origines of the myths and mysteries, types and symbols, religion and language, with Egypt for the mouthpiece and Africa as the birthplace”, Black Classic Pr
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They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
-- Gerald Massey -
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We know that Seattle is mentioned frequently ... a computer was found in Afghanistan showing pictures of Seattle-area landmarks. So we are in constant contact with the FBI and with other federal authorities,
-- Greg NickelsSource : "Americans urged to enjoy 4th, stay vigilant", www.cnn.com. July 1, 2002.
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Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.
-- Gustav Heinemann -
There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.
-- Haile Selassie -
The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.
-- Hans Denck -
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The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.
-- Harry Gordon Selfridge -
The imposition of taxes has its limits. There is a maximum which cannot be transcended. Suppose the citizen to be taxed by the general government to the utmost extent of his ability, or a thing as much as it can possibly bear, and the state imposes a tax at the same time, which authority is to take it?
-- Henry ClaySource : Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Presidential Candidate, 1821-1824”, p.587, University Press of Kentucky
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Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow
-- Henry PaulsonSource : "A Skeptical Outsider Becomes Bush's 'Wartime General'". www.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2008.
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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
-- Herbert Read -
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With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.
-- Herbert SchillerSource : "Living In The Number One Country". Book by Herbert Schiller, 2000.
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It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.
-- Homer -
Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.
-- Houston Stewart Chamberlain -
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
-- Hu ShihSource : Hu Shih (2013). “English Writings of Hu Shih: Chinese Philosophy and Intellectual History”, p.141, Springer Science & Business Media
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I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
-- Hugh Lofting -
Men in authority are now a threatened minority.
-- Ilana Mercer -
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
-- J. D. Salinger -
The past has always been the handmaid of authority.
-- J. H. PlumbSource : J.H. Plumb (1989). “The Death of the Past”, p.40, Springer
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Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire , Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.
-- Jacques Barzun -
For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.
-- Jacques Barzun -
One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be. You're the one who'll decide what you want to be.
-- Jaime Escalante -
All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.
-- James BurghSource : James Burgh (1775). “Political Disquisitions: Or, An Inquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses. Illustrated By, and Established Upon Facts and Remarks, Extracted from a Variety of Authors, Ancient and Modern...”, p.3
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Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous.
-- James Dobson -
Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.
-- James Hunter -
Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.
-- James Hunter -
Power people are generally threatened by authority people...
-- James Hunter -