Authority Quotes

Authority Quote of the day

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.

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

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

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

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

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

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

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty.

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

All authority belongs to the people.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

People usually have to be dragged kicking and screaming into what’s good for them.

The lion does not need the whole world to fear him, only those nearest where he roams.

I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an imaginary totem pole. I give you my respect because of your actions.

Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority.

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

With discipline, you can lose weight, you can excel in work, you can win the war.

Authority is established by God for the wellbeing of His people

The strong will always rule the weak.

After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

when you get to the peak, remember the valley exists

To accept Jesus is to accept His total authority in your life.

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

Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him

The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's authority only against al Qaeda, it allows them for all legitimate foreign intelligence purposes.

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

God gave us His spirit, for us to have the power and authority to uproot lawlessness and establish God’s righteousness

-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

Power without compassion is like a giant that blocks the sunlight.

Global betterment is a mental process, not one that requires huge sums of money or a high level of authority. Change has to be psychological.

The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they do.

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

Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.

Those in true spiritual authority have neither the desire nor the need to control anyone, either directly or subversively.

The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

Mere talents does not give glory to God but a humble heart.

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.

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

He who neglects the true Sovereign God neglects his own true authority and freedom!

...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...