Authority Quotes

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

I do think it's a very good way to describe what a great actor does. You're both acknowledging the authority of the director and the necessity of the actor to push back and find their own voice.

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those creeps and old ladies of vested reviewing.

No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

Satan . . . is as dangerous as we allow him to be. His primary weapon is deceit, and he uses it to prevent Christians from exercising the authority that is truly theirs in this world.

Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them.

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.

I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

The temptation to use mathematics is irresistible for economists. It appears to convey the appropriate air of scientific authority and precision to economists' musings.

I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.

[Management] has authority only as long as it performs.

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.

I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.

John Frame's magnificent work on the Christian life fully endorses the authority of Scripture and practically addresses the need to consider the situations and people involved in ethical decisions.

I have it on good authority that Victor's going to have car trouble. Also that Robert really likes Cheerios, so if you want some, you're out of luck. He doesn't seem like the sharing type.

When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.

Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.

I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to run your life. And the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

I've never been any good with authority.

The word "concluded" is a trick word. It's designed to attach authority and ontological certitude to whatever follows, when it's just another way of stating what somebody thinks.

Hillary Clinton was personally presiding over the dissolution of moral authority - particularly applied to presidents - because she looked the other way, because she tolerated it.

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.