No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority. Luke” — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society. — Albert Mohler Copy Share Image
Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority. — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
“It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.” — C.J. Langenhoven Copy Share Image
The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation. — Cornelius Cardew Copy Share Image
“Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
Authority can be faked. That's why impersonating a police officer is a crime. Sometimes the outward appearances of authority can be deceiving. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“When he was with a woman, he saw to her welfare with the easy authority of a man who believed it was… — Joey W. Hill Copy Share Image
[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while… — Les Back Copy Share Image
I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Autonomous state actions will regularly take forms that attempt to reinforce the authority, political longevity, and social control of the state. — Theda Skocpol Copy Share Image
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I have seen firsthand how injustice gets overlooked when the victims are powerless or vulnerable, when they have no one to speak… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I fully support your efforts to stamp out sexual assault in the United States military and believer that there is nothing in… — Dave McGinnis Copy Share Image
The parent-child relationship in the home usually reflects the objective cultural conditions of the surrounding social structure. If the conditions which penetrate… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“I would rather be an authority on myself than on Cicero.” — Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592 Copy Share Image
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