Quotes and Sayings 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