Authority Quotes

Love’? What do you know about love?” "It’s at the heart of every story,” Rollo said with authority. “If humans could avoid falling in love, you would never get yourselves into any trouble.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

You cannot give the vice president the authority to declassify specific information and then turn around and say he can just give carte blanche to an assistant of his to declassify whatever he wants.

I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate.

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it.

To resist him that is set in authority is evil

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

Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority.

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

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

Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

I want to tell the vice president and everybody else that when I'm president there will be a controlling legal authority.

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.

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

Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

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

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

The love of liberty that is not a real principle of dutiful behavior to authority is as hypocritical as the religion that is not productive of a good life.

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

I don't know where it's come from, but after many years of many different products, I feel like I can speak as an authority on a lot of them.

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.

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

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.

We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.

I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.

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

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.

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

When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends.

When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.

I have an authority problem.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

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