I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. Votes: 4
George CarlinAuthority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation. Votes: 3
Mustafa Kemal AtaturkInfluence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives. Votes: 3
Johnny HuntThe ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. Votes: 3
Dalai LamaAuthority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them. Votes: 3
Andy StanleyAuthority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous. Votes: 3
James DobsonIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. Votes: 3
VoltaireControl is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception Votes: 3
Brandon SandersonAuthority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Votes: 3
Anne BradstreetAuthority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Votes: 3
Anne BradstreetAuthority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish. Votes: 3
Anne BradstreetAuthority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow. Votes: 3
John Charles PolanyiThe last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. Votes: 3
Vernon JordanAuthority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want. Votes: 3
James HetfieldThey must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth. Votes: 3
Gerald MasseyWithout the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws Votes: 1
Teresa StoverAny commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates. Votes: 1
Arleigh BurkeThe authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Votes: 1
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. Votes: 1
Mary WollstonecraftThe insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas. Votes: 0
Frank Lloyd WrightPolitical correctness is euphemism for "fear to speak truth to authority Votes: 0
Bangambiki HabyarimanaWhenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. Votes: 0
Thomas Chandler HaliburtonLiberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity. Votes: 0
Robert J. ShillerThe first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. Votes: 0
Robert GottliebI've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches. Votes: 0
Richard SeymourPeace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ. Votes: 0
Beth MooreOne of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.' Votes: 0
Carl SaganThe alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries. Votes: 0
James GleickThe authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president. Votes: 0
Ted CruzThe first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity. Votes: 0
Adolf HitlerThe express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution. Votes: 0
James MadisonCameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers. Votes: 0
Paul WeyrichUnbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture. Votes: 0
Mark DeverLawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonEvery time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillA fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking. Votes: 0
Philip SidneyThe greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you. Votes: 0
John BeverePeople, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. Votes: 0
David Foster WallaceThe price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority. Votes: 0
Neil PostmanEvery great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Votes: 0
Thomas HuxleyI'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be? Votes: 0
Wilbur L. CreechEverywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. Votes: 0
Gustav HeinemannIndividuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues. Votes: 0
Gary ZukavI'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite Votes: 0
Michael O'LearyNo Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. Votes: 0
Keith O'Brien[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power. Votes: 0
Chuck SmithModesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. Votes: 0
William GreiderFew things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied. Votes: 0
L. Neil SmithA key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules. Votes: 0
Vivek WadhwaWhen you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders. Votes: 0
Craig GroeschelObedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteThe infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority. Votes: 0
Archibald MacLeishThe reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillWe've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority. Votes: 0
Eric MetaxasThe proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem. Votes: 0
Arthur KeithThe reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks. Votes: 0
Sebastian ThrunTo punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinThe will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government... Votes: 0
Eleanor RooseveltThe exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. Votes: 0
Benjamin TuckerConformity"the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. Votes: 0
Mark TwainWe work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love. Votes: 0
Jean VanierFree discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. Votes: 0
Hyman RickoverYou don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any. Votes: 0
Benjamin LotterThe authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason. Votes: 0
Martin LutherExisting libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power. Votes: 0
Alberto ManguelThe passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority. Votes: 0
Paul TillichLimitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited. Votes: 0
Lord ActonYusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today. Votes: 0
Feisal Abdul RaufMy father represented authority, which meantto methat he could not also represent understanding. Votes: 0
William MaxwellGreat men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. Votes: 0
Lord ActonWithout the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws. Votes: 0
Philipp MelanchthonWhat you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. Votes: 0
Molly IvinsFor self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer. Votes: 0
Mary McCarthyA Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why. Votes: 0
Amy ChuaIt is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under Godâs authority. Votes: 0
K.P. YohannanAnyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Votes: 0
Miguel de UnamunoNothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak. Votes: 0
Charles de GaulleAs Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority. Votes: 0
Tom GjeltenWherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeI think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority. Votes: 0
Kimberly GuilfoyleMy desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. Votes: 0
Dalai LamaWho will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? Votes: 0
John CalvinThe sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people. Votes: 0
Roger WilliamsThere's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority. Votes: 0
Henry CloudI can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well. Votes: 0
Bob HawkeAs writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. Votes: 0
Michael CunninghamA revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. Votes: 0
James MacGregor BurnsI have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority. Votes: 0
Billy GrahamYou have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait. Votes: 0
GangajiBeing yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans. Votes: 0
Beth MooreEveryone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep. Votes: 0
Samuel R. DelanyMost people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong. Votes: 0
Ted NelsonWe [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world... Votes: 0
Chuck Todd...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent... Votes: 0
John GeddesThough authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold. Votes: 0
William ShakespeareI call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. Votes: 0
Herbert ReadAt home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. Votes: 0
Seamus HeaneyI'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. Votes: 0
Alex KapranosIf you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet. Votes: 0
Keith RichardsIf you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. Votes: 0
Keith Richards[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men. Votes: 0
Margaret MeadMy pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouWe do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us. Votes: 0
Steven J LawsonYou can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven. Votes: 0
Bill CosbyLawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country. Votes: 0
Chief JosephOur rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. Votes: 0
Thomas JeffersonA foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof. Votes: 0
Roger ChamberlainI am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. Votes: 0
Philip PullmanThe saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God. Votes: 0
David A. BednarMayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce. Votes: 0
Lou BarlettaThere is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeYou have authority in your mouth, hence don't need to be afraid; but rather positively affirm! Votes: 0
Israelmore AyivorI don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. Votes: 0
Linus TorvaldsIf you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you. Votes: 0
William A. DembskiIt is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too. Votes: 0
Taylor MaliThere is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism. Votes: 0
Mark DurieIt is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced. Votes: 0
HomerI think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing. Votes: 0
Maria SempleI don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority. Votes: 0
Aman MojadidiI think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing. Votes: 0
Maria SempleThe Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. Votes: 0
Friedrich August von HayekIn the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority. Votes: 0
Albert MeltzerIn my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost. Votes: 0
Kim Young-samIn general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them. Votes: 0
Geoffrey ChaucerAnyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority. Votes: 0
E. L. DoctorowFor a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. Votes: 0
Ernest HemingwayA Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority. Votes: 0
John WoodenI have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine. Votes: 0
Gene HackmanWhen all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself. Votes: 0
Jiddu KrishnamurtiThe reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance Votes: 0
Richard HookerHe who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect. Votes: 0
Leonardo da VinciIt is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinHave no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellWhen anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned. Votes: 0
Frank Lloyd WrightGreat is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions. Votes: 0
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe. Votes: 0
Richard HammingIt is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated. Votes: 0
Saint BasilI've always had a problem with authority. I just can't wear a suit - it would kill me. Votes: 0
Gold PandaI bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. Votes: 0
Mikhail BakuninWhat gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God! Votes: 0
Vance HavnerScience as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not. Votes: 0
William JamesI had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy. Votes: 0
Jurgen KlinsmannThe custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. Votes: 0
Thomas AquinasThe union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty. Votes: 0
Robert Hugh BensonWe know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist. Votes: 0
Martin Luther[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws. Votes: 0
Edward GibbonAll authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. Votes: 0
Francis BaconI get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority. Votes: 0
Michael BadenIt is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority. Votes: 0
Alexander HamiltonZero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most. Votes: 0
Gene WilderObedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God. Votes: 0
L. Tom PerryAs a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. Votes: 0
Fredrik BajerEvery sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority. Votes: 0
R. C. SproulThe less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority. Votes: 0
Prince CharlesThe truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God. Votes: 0
Joyce MeyerMy culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that. Votes: 0
James KelmanI have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol. Votes: 0
W. C. FieldsI must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. Votes: 0
George MasonUntil we stand in a place where we have met God, we have no authority to change a Nation Votes: 0
Lou EngleAt a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. Votes: 0
StendhalI want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert. Votes: 0
John C. MaxwellThe nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinGiving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority. Votes: 0
David WeberI would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. Votes: 0
Saint Augustine