Authority Quotes · Page 16

I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate…

— Jeb Hensarling

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

— Nikki Bella

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

— D. H. Lawrence

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.

— Kin Hubbard

When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.

— Shelby Steele

I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath.

— Joe Royle

The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.

— Walker Stapleton

I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.

— Jean Drapeau

For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there…

— Richard Hooker

The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people…

— John Seabrook

If someone was to tally the number of human hours wasted in business by people trying to accomplish objectives without being given…

— Laurie Beth Jones

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience…

— William of Ockham

If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work…

— Richard Dawkins

There are three things about Barack that really stand out for me: strength, moral authority, and wisdom. ... He has pressed the…

— David Cameron

After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet ] become much, much safer. And me personally,…

— Dalai Lama

Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.

— William J. Clinton

I was always matching wits with authority. Pondering over my past and present hassles, I began to wonder why my life had…

— Bill Lee

“As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 in Meudon as a…

— Peter Sloterdijk

“The truth that is variously enacted by such agents is not an idea or a proposition. It is rather a habit of…

— Walter Brueggemann

By the way, one other thing, T-Mobile, these cellular providers offer all kinds of data deals to get you to sign up.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Science isn't about authority or white coats; it's about following a method. That method is built on core principles: precision and transparency;…

— Ben Goldacre

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But,…

— Denis Leary

This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth and raging for its own innovations. We…

— Isaac D'Israeli

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of…

— Muhammad Iqbal

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him…

— Terry Pratchett

“Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot.”

— B. A Santamaria

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

— Mark Twain

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces…

— Adrienne Rich

The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.

— Adam Cohen

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

— John Wooden

“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young…

— Richard Dawkins

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

— Alan Tudyk

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

— Vernon Jordan

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

— Larry Burkett

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

— Thomas Huxley

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

— Marie de France

“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

— Mark Durie

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

— Isaac Watts