Authority Quotes · Page 21

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

— Kenny Cunningham

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

— Socrates

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

— Virginia Postrel

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art…

— Oscar Wilde

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

— Homer

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can…

— Jackie Robinson

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

— Benjamin Franklin

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

— Hans Denck

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with…

— William J. Clinton

Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources…

— Alain de Botton

As God's representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading…

— Barbara Wentroble

I also administer the Internet Assigned Names Authority, which is the central coordinator for the Internet address space, domain names and Internet…

— Jon Postel

Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.

— Louis Menand

Sometimes you have positional authority, and that is very hopeful. But the reality of it is the nation responds to moral authority,…

— Tim Scott

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every…

— Ronald Reagan

The Hacker Ethic: Access to computers--and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works--should be unlimited and total.…

— Steven Levy

Hamas' leadership needs new blood. I will continue to serve my people. But the presidency of the Palestinian Autonomous Authority is not…

— Khaled Mashal

I think America is really well-positioned, because we do train people to be creative and sometimes resist authority, which helps in being…

— Walter Isaacson

Although the FCC has tried to introduce net neutrality rules to avoid abusive practices like favoring your own services over others, they…

— Vint Cerf

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place…

— Anonymous

A friend of mine said that when Barack Obama was running for president, there was a whole generation of white kids who…

— George C. Wolfe

“Our identity is in Christ, not in our work, our accomplishments or our own good works. Our provision is from God alone,…

— Paddick Van Zyl

Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how…

— David Bentley Hart

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

— William Penn

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

— Ari Melber

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

— Criss Jami

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

— Tim Winton

“those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

— Meryl Streep

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

— Margaret Mead

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

— Stanley Milgram

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

— Martina Navratilova

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

— Sophocles

“The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.”

— Bryant McGill

“The authority that God has given you over Satan is ample, wide-ranging, thorough, all embracing”

— Pedro Okoro

I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?

— Wilbur L. Creech

Artists will always depend on the brick-and-mortar ecosystem to establish authority and context.

— Alexander Gilkes

They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over…

— Bill Watterson