Authority Quotes
I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.
It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.
I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.
Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it.
I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.
authority love your neighbor.no matter what the condition is. even if it means to sacrifice your plan to do what he or she wants.
When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.
College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.
Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.
Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.
If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.
That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.
After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.
There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in.
The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.
What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.
By statute, Congress has given the president the authority to suspend immigration - any class of immigration if he deems it in the national interest.
Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly unarm, and force in to helplessness, American citizens.
I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.
The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.
The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.
When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.
It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.
Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.
As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.
It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid.
The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.
Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.
But it is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying.
Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.
A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.
When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states, men in these times tended to snicker.
I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.