Authority Quotes

Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each son sought to displace the authority of the father in his own life.

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

Always question the authority.

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

Mark Twain is a universe, and he is also a kind of American authority figure. He can say things to America that other people can't say, in a way that can truly be heard.

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.

I don't pose as an authority on anything at all, I follow the opinions of the ordinary people I meet, and I take pride in the close-knit teamwork with my organization.

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

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

Nice customs curtsy to great kings.

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

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

You can't believe everything people tell you - not even if those people are your own brain.

If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It's about time the world was set aright.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

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

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

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

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

No controlling legal authority

Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

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

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

The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

MACE, n. A staff of office signifying authority. Its form, that of a heavy club, indicates its original purpose and use in dissuading from dissent.

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

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

I'm sitting here watching Hannah Montana, so I'm not going to annihilate 4.3 million Pakistanis without hearing directly from someone whose authority I recognize!

In many cases, the authorities can't really prove if the person is in danger or not, because they can't send a person to Afghanistan to investigate each and every case.

Authority does not equal competency.

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

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

The terms of the 2008 constitution [which ensures the military will continue to be the ultimate authority] could not benefit Burma in the long run. I think this constitution should be revised.

It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.

Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.

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

I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

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

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