Authority Quotes

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

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

Happily, I come out of a Calvinist tradition in which the Hebrew Bible carries as much authority as the New Testament. No different weight is given to one or the other.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

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

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

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

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

And after September the 11th, the United States Congress also granted me additional authority to use military force against al Qaeda. . . .

The peaceful transfer of authority is rare in history, yet common in our country. With a simple oath, we affirm old traditions and make new beginnings.

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

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

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

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

I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a despot; the average man is a serf.

[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority.

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

The right attitude toward any negative state begins with understanding that its only authority over you is a direct reflection of your attitude towards it.

The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn to it for light upon all their problems, spiritual and secular.

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

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

I will not sulk about having no boyfriend, but develop inner poise and authority and sense of self as woman of substance, complete without boyfriend, as best way to obtain boyfriend.

The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying.

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

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

Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social costs.

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it done. To define everything in terms of these index numbers is ridiculous.

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

We are more speedily and fatally corrupted by domestic examples of vice, and particularly when they are impressed on our minds as from authority.

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

I gave him my hard stare. “You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?” A wicked spark lit his eyes. “Many, many times.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

If you want peace, be peace. If you want wealth, be wealth. Think it. Talk it. Prepare yourself to have it. Have faith enough to seek guidance and authority from within.

Authority figures always attract trouble

The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.

I am very pro-union and very anti-authority by nature, so by showing the housekeepers and valets, I was being loyal to those people - those workers. I'm glad that the service industry unionized.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

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

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

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

California is, in many respects, best understood as a nation-state. In the environmental-energy realm, California possesses far-reaching legal authorities that other states do not.

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

Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by the Judicial authority.

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

We need a regime change in this country.... If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.