Authority Quotes · Page 18

What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or…

— Catherine the Great

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

— Mark Twain

Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

— Callie Khouri

Be honest to your action, be honest to your commitment, act with transparency, no one will challenge your authority.

— Anil Sinha

Question authority. Ask authority if it's lost weight or been working out recently, because it's really looking great.

— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic

Science has authority, not because of white coats, or titles, but because of precision and transparency: you explain your theory, set out…

— Ben Goldacre

Leaders of political parties need to keep in contact with the people; that's what it's all about. If violence were to erupt,…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an…

— Mark Goddard

Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and…

— Paul Tillich

Now everybody's bloggin'. I heard somebody say, "Blogging is just graffiti with punctuation." Everyone's an authority so there's nobody in power, 'cause…

— Ice T

“Authority + Network=Platform. Authority to speak on a subject (self-help, spirituality, business, economics, etc.) is basically why you are the best person…

— Roseanne Wells

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a…

— Elena Kagan

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they…

— Matt Gonzalez

Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas…

— Camille Paglia

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to…

— John Calvin

The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of…

— Edward Thomson

Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.…

— James F. Cooper

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The government's collection authority, under the Patriot Act, is basically limitless. They can get the medical records and financial records, gun purchase…

— Ron Wyden

I could show how largely our laws and customs are based upon the laws of Moses and the teachings of Christ; how…

— David Josiah Brewer

“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”

— Edward Bond

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

— Edward Snowden

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

— Malcolm Gladwell

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

— John C. Maxwell

The infantile cowardice of our time which demands an external pattern, a nonhuman authority.

— Archibald MacLeish

“...when the room goes silent, someone has spoken with authority...”

— John Geddes

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“If you don't want to have your authority questioned, then you have no right to be in authority in the first place”

— Anonomyus

At school, I was a lot more advanced compared to the other kids but I didn't like authority and was kicked out…

— Jimi Manuwa

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

— E. L. Doctorow

Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.

— Alain Robert

“The prerequisite for being in authority is recognizing that one is always under authority.”

— Joe Rigney

“...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...”

— John Geddes

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

— Lewis Black

They must find it hard to take Truth for authority who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.

— Gerald Massey

As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

— Timothy Keller