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 forgets a dying king Votes: 3

Authority forgets a dying king. Votes: 3

Authority does not equal competency. Votes: 3

Authority figures always attract trouble Votes: 3

Authority. The antithesis of science. Votes: 3

Think for yourself and question authority. Votes: 3

Authority is no source for Truth. Votes: 3

Authority and example lead the world. 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

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

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

Authority to heal is given from on high. 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 doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance. 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 leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship. Votes: 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe 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 and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty. Votes: 3

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

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

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

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect. Votes: 1

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Our submission defines our authority Votes: 0

Mouths talk without authority sometimes ... Votes: 0

Respect authority while questioning it. Votes: 0

Experience is the highest authority. Votes: 0

I really rebel against authority. Votes: 0

Power without authority is tyranny. Votes: 0

Art made tongue-tied by authority. Votes: 0

There is no authority but yourself. Votes: 0

All authority comes from the people. Votes: 0

All authority belongs to the people. Votes: 0

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

The wisest have the most authority. Votes: 0

Obedience to authority saves many skins Votes: 0

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

Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak Votes: 0

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

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

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority. Votes: 0

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

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

The punishing of wits enhances their authority. Votes: 0

I fight authority and authority always wins. Votes: 0

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

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

Physical violence is the basis of authority. Votes: 0

The highest duty is to respect authority. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We should still pray. We have no other authority but to pray. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished. 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 dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. Votes: 0

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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