Quotes about Authority

Authority is never without hate. Votes: 5

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law Votes: 5

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence. Votes: 4

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. Votes: 4

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority. Votes: 4

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. Votes: 4

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. Votes: 4

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Votes: 4

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. Votes: 4

Authority is quite degrading. Votes: 3

Authority. The antithesis of science. Votes: 3

Authority figures always attract trouble Votes: 3

Authority forgets a dying king. Votes: 3

Authority does not equal competency. Votes: 3

Authority forgets a dying king Votes: 3

Authority and example lead the world. Votes: 3

Authority is no source for Truth. Votes: 3

Think for yourself and question authority. Votes: 3

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely. Votes: 3

Authority is conferred by position, not character. Votes: 3

Authority is always built on service and sacrifice. Votes: 3

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. Votes: 3

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. Votes: 3

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination. Votes: 3

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones. Votes: 3

Authority to heal is given from on high. Votes: 3

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it! Votes: 3

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. Votes: 3

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration. Votes: 3

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. Votes: 3

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. Votes: 3

The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer. Votes: 3

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away. Votes: 3

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. Votes: 3

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you. Votes: 3

Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship. Votes: 3

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. Votes: 3

When Authority is discovered and faith applied, power is manifested Votes: 3

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions. Votes: 3

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation. Votes: 3

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you. Votes: 3

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority. Votes: 3

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race Votes: 3

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force. Votes: 3

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you. Votes: 3

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd. Votes: 3

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer. Votes: 3

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him Votes: 3

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers). Votes: 3

Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives. Votes: 3

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. Votes: 3

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them. Votes: 3

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed. Votes: 3

Authority is God ordained, but authoritarianism and raw power, in almost all forms, is dangerous. Votes: 3

Control is the basis of all true power. Authority and strength are matters of perception Votes: 3

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. Votes: 3

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Votes: 3

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. Votes: 3

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. Votes: 3

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence. Votes: 3

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish. Votes: 3

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow. Votes: 3

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade. Votes: 3

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. Votes: 3

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. Votes: 3

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. Votes: 3

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. Votes: 3

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want. Votes: 3

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth. Votes: 3

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it. Votes: 3

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. Votes: 3

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. Votes: 3

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't. Votes: 3

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence. Votes: 3

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer. Votes: 3

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. Votes: 1

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws Votes: 1

The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism Votes: 1

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Votes: 1

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates. Votes: 1

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. Votes: 1

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. Votes: 1

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. Votes: 1

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much Votes: 1

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority. Votes: 1

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. Votes: 1

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. Votes: 1

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. Votes: 1

The single most important thing that anyone can do in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, with the right authority Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government Votes: 1

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. Votes: 1

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 Votes: 1

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. Votes: 1

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered Votes: 1

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group. Votes: 1

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. Votes: 1

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you're not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation! Votes: 1

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks Votes: 1

The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but in the nature of their relationship to authority. They have given themselves to the authority; they see themselves as instruments for the execution of his wishes once so defined, they are unable to break free Votes: 1

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. Votes: 1

Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation. Votes: 1

I cannot stand authority. Votes: 0

The People adore authority. Votes: 0

No controlling legal authority Votes: 0

Always question the authority. Votes: 0

I really rebel against authority. Votes: 0

Art made tongue-tied by authority. Votes: 0

Respect authority while questioning it. Votes: 0

Power without authority is tyranny. Votes: 0

Our submission defines our authority Votes: 0

Experience is the highest authority. Votes: 0

Mouths talk without authority sometimes ... Votes: 0

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following. Votes: 0

Self-possession is the backbone of authority. Votes: 0

Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak Votes: 0

Obedience to authority saves many skins Votes: 0

I've always had trouble with authority. Votes: 0

All authority belongs to the people. Votes: 0

There is no authority but yourself. Votes: 0

All authority comes from the people. Votes: 0

The wisest have the most authority. Votes: 0

Truth for authority, not authority for truth. Votes: 0

The punishing of wits enhances their authority. Votes: 0

The highest duty is to respect authority. Votes: 0

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority. Votes: 0

I fight authority and authority always wins. Votes: 0

Physical violence is the basis of authority. Votes: 0

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority Votes: 0

Experience is, for me, the highest authority. Votes: 0

I've never been any good with authority. Votes: 0

Question authority; but, raise your hand first. Votes: 0

If you delegate authority, you will build leaders. Votes: 0

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. Votes: 0

Power people are generally threatened by authority people... Votes: 0

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority. Votes: 0

The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone. Votes: 0

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority. Votes: 0

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority. Votes: 0

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. Votes: 0

No moral system can rest solely on authority. Votes: 0

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster. Votes: 0

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away. Votes: 0

Men in authority are now a threatened minority. Votes: 0

Fish are not the best authority on water. Votes: 0

I have no intention of sharing my authority. Votes: 0

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority Votes: 0

Where there is authority, there is no freedom. Votes: 0

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels. Votes: 0

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases. Votes: 0

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority. Votes: 0

Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions. Votes: 0

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings. Votes: 0

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority. Votes: 0

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth. Votes: 0

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. Votes: 0

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. Votes: 0

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter. Votes: 0

The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. Votes: 0

"True expertise is the most potent form of authority." Votes: 0

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority. Votes: 0

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment. Votes: 0

I believe in the magic and authority of words. Votes: 0

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. Votes: 0

The man whose authority is recent is always stern. Votes: 0

The anger of those in authority is always weighty. Votes: 0

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility. Votes: 0

The past has always been the handmaid of authority. Votes: 0

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill. Votes: 0

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice. Votes: 0

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more. Votes: 0

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty. Votes: 0

Management has authority only as long as it performs. Votes: 0

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth. Votes: 0

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority. Votes: 0

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. Votes: 0

His voice carried authority the way Ben & Jerry's carries calories. Votes: 0

Wearing a hat confers undeniable authority over those without one. Votes: 0

When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself. Votes: 0

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority. Votes: 0

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate. Votes: 0

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. Votes: 0

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. Votes: 0

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority. Votes: 0

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory. Votes: 0

To resist him that is set in authority is evil Votes: 0

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority Votes: 0

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority. Votes: 0

I do situations and make fun of authority and life. Votes: 0

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority. Votes: 0

You have authority over every storm you can sleep in Votes: 0

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. Votes: 0

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. Votes: 0

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth. Votes: 0

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth. Votes: 0

Your job gives you authority. Your behavior gives you respect Votes: 0

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority. Votes: 0

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution. Votes: 0

For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority. Votes: 0

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority. Votes: 0

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity. Votes: 0

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas. Votes: 0

The authority of God is behind the establishing of human authority. Votes: 0

God only promises to bless the nation that recognizes His authority. Votes: 0

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. Votes: 0

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own. Votes: 0

Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality. Votes: 0

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life. Votes: 0

Political correctness is euphemism for "fear to speak truth to authority Votes: 0

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. Votes: 0

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. Votes: 0

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. Votes: 0

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority. Votes: 0

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime. Votes: 0

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community. Votes: 0

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea. Votes: 0

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority. Votes: 0

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity. Votes: 0

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately Votes: 0

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine. Votes: 0

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas. Votes: 0

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. Votes: 0

I write because I have authority from life to do so. Votes: 0

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority. Votes: 0

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority. Votes: 0

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ. Votes: 0

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. Votes: 0

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way Votes: 0

True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence. Votes: 0

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches. Votes: 0

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. Votes: 0

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. Votes: 0

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. Votes: 0

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. Votes: 0

I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA. Votes: 0

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures. Votes: 0

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once. Votes: 0

We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray. Votes: 0

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people. Votes: 0

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally. Votes: 0

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos. Votes: 0

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Votes: 0

My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period. Votes: 0

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned. Votes: 0

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge. Votes: 0

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. Votes: 0

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority. Votes: 0

Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts. Votes: 0

The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people. Votes: 0

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority. Votes: 0

If there is disturbance in the camp, the general's authority is weak. Votes: 0

The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity. Votes: 0

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. Votes: 0

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Votes: 0

I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be? Votes: 0

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed. Votes: 0

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. Votes: 0

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries. Votes: 0

The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you. Votes: 0

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't any. Votes: 0

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers. Votes: 0

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. Votes: 0

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.' Votes: 0

Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture. Votes: 0

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking. Votes: 0

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution. Votes: 0

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Votes: 0

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority. Votes: 0

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority. Votes: 0

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president. Votes: 0

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Votes: 0

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. Votes: 0

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know. Votes: 0

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority. Votes: 0

I wouldn't want to be anyone to usurp the authority of the WWE. Votes: 0

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong. Votes: 0

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. Votes: 0

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit. Votes: 0

Only Congress has the authority to adequately and holistically address our broken immigration system. Votes: 0

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules. Votes: 0

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage. Votes: 0

When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven. Votes: 0

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority. Votes: 0

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. Votes: 0

I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind. Votes: 0

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity. Votes: 0

Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination Votes: 0

The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority. Votes: 0

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority. Votes: 0

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority. Votes: 0

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders. Votes: 0

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem. Votes: 0

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority. Votes: 0

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied. Votes: 0

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council. Votes: 0

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. Votes: 0

You don't gain authority by raising your voice. You prove you don't have any. Votes: 0

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks. Votes: 0

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. Votes: 0

[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power. Votes: 0

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority Votes: 0

Modern intelligence won't accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority. Votes: 0

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. Votes: 0

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out. Votes: 0

Conformity"”the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. Votes: 0

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government... Votes: 0

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.] Votes: 0

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love. Votes: 0

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children. Votes: 0

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. Votes: 0

I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite Votes: 0

Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues. Votes: 0

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. Votes: 0

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority. Votes: 0

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason. Votes: 0

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power. Votes: 0

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority. Votes: 0

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today. Votes: 0

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority. Votes: 0

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws. Votes: 0

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. Votes: 0

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer. Votes: 0

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why. Votes: 0

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Votes: 0

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited. Votes: 0

My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding. Votes: 0

There's definitely a fascination with crime stories and stories of characters acting out against authority. Votes: 0

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason. Votes: 0

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. Votes: 0

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences. Votes: 0

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument. Votes: 0

It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority. Votes: 0

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war. Votes: 0

As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority. Votes: 0

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak. Votes: 0

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers. Votes: 0

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another. Votes: 0

I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority. Votes: 0

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility. Votes: 0

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk. Votes: 0

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? Votes: 0

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority. Votes: 0

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority. Votes: 0

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living. Votes: 0

I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well. Votes: 0

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people. Votes: 0

There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority. Votes: 0

God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time. Votes: 0

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Votes: 0

You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait. Votes: 0

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. Votes: 0

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. Votes: 0

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans. Votes: 0

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet. Votes: 0

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. Votes: 0

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep. Votes: 0

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong. Votes: 0

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food. Votes: 0

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world... Votes: 0

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. Votes: 0

...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent... Votes: 0

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. Votes: 0

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority. Votes: 0

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men. Votes: 0

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure. Votes: 0

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. Votes: 0

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof. Votes: 0

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it. Votes: 0

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. Votes: 0

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer. Votes: 0

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold. Votes: 0

You have authority in your mouth, hence don't need to be afraid; but rather positively affirm! Votes: 0

We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us. Votes: 0

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age. Votes: 0

System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability. Votes: 0

The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God. Votes: 0

My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs. Votes: 0

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Votes: 0

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. Votes: 0

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven. Votes: 0

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce. Votes: 0

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country. Votes: 0

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority. Votes: 0

I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority. Votes: 0

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism. Votes: 0

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant. Votes: 0

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. Votes: 0

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be. Votes: 0

Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches. Votes: 0

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected. Votes: 0

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love. Votes: 0

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority. Votes: 0

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action Votes: 0

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. Votes: 0

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty. Votes: 0

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why. Votes: 0

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs. Votes: 0

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter. Votes: 0

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. Votes: 0

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery. Votes: 0

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority. Votes: 0

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced. Votes: 0

One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority. Votes: 0

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated. Votes: 0

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you. Votes: 0

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine. Votes: 0

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect. Votes: 0

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned. Votes: 0

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing. Votes: 0

In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority. Votes: 0

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them. Votes: 0

When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself. Votes: 0

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive. Votes: 0

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority. Votes: 0

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess. Votes: 0

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it. Votes: 0

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing. Votes: 0

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too. Votes: 0

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions. Votes: 0

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance Votes: 0

In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe. Votes: 0

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found Votes: 0

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost. Votes: 0

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing. Votes: 0

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform. Votes: 0

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. Votes: 0

One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers. Votes: 0

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws. Votes: 0

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy. Votes: 0

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not. Votes: 0

Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it. Votes: 0

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority. Votes: 0

The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel. Votes: 0

A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along. Votes: 0

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding. Votes: 0

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason. Votes: 0

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things. Votes: 0

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist. Votes: 0

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority. Votes: 0

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority. Votes: 0

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority. Votes: 0

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority. Votes: 0

The union of the family lies in love; and love is the only reconciliation of authority and liberty. Votes: 0

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. Votes: 0

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God. Votes: 0

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority. Votes: 0

What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God! Votes: 0

I've always had a problem with authority. I just can't wear a suit - it would kill me. Votes: 0

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most. Votes: 0

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. Votes: 0

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished. Votes: 0

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. Votes: 0

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. Votes: 0

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office. Votes: 0

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. Votes: 0

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority. Votes: 0

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right. Votes: 0

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority. Votes: 0

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that. Votes: 0

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority. Votes: 0

'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority. Votes: 0

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave. Votes: 0

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law? Votes: 0

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. Votes: 0

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. Votes: 0

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God. Votes: 0

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy. Votes: 0

There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect. Votes: 0

Until we stand in a place where we have met God, we have no authority to change a Nation Votes: 0

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol. Votes: 0

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect. Votes: 0

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's. Votes: 0

Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority. Votes: 0

You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow. Votes: 0

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority. Votes: 0

The only authority I respect is the one that causes butterflies to fly south in fall and north in springtime. Votes: 0

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. Votes: 0

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using. Votes: 0

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. Votes: 0

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove. Votes: 0

I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert. Votes: 0

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves. Votes: 0

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things? Votes: 0

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do. Votes: 0

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war. Votes: 0

One thing is clear - demons know they must submit to the superior authority in the name of Jesus Christ! Votes: 0

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't. Votes: 0

Remember: you are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world. Votes: 0

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No. Votes: 0

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority. Votes: 0

True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all. Votes: 0

Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion. Votes: 0

I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so. Votes: 0

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. Votes: 0

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else. Votes: 0

In a nutshell-I fear authority but at the same time I resent it-the authority and my own fear. So I rebel. Votes: 0

Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do. Votes: 0

As soon as we abandon our reason and are content to rely on authority, there is no end to our troubles. Votes: 0

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it. Votes: 0

You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career. Votes: 0