Authority Quotes

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

I am convinced that people are open to the Christian message if it is seasoned with authority and proclaimed as God's own Word.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do.

I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.

Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where does it come from?" "From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.

As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.

I recently had the opportunity to vote to give the president limited authority to begin strikes against terrorists in Iraq and Syria.

One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.

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

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

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

Men, if you are in a position of power or authority, please respectfully continue to mentor and work with talented individuals and those with promise, regardless if they are men or women.

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

His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

Does having a wife and kids change your act? Yes, but only in the best way. It gives you weight and authority. It also makes you closer to the audience because the audience is married and has kids.

A lot of actors say that theater's the thing for them. And that's great, and I'm not one to speak with any authority about it because of not having done it properly. For me, movies are what I love.

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

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

The Parliament in Canada and the Congress in Washington do not have the authority to revoke the commandments of God, or to modify or amend them in any way.

The United States Constitution grants education decision authority to the states and localities not to the president of the United States.

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

There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the reset button on the moral authority of the entire free world.

Most of us aren't crazy psychotics, but most of us are a whole bunch of different people. I think when you are in a position of authority, that doesn't remove that from you.

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

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

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

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

Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.

I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something.

Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.

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

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

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.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.