Authority Quotes · Page 26

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

— Richard Hooker

Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority.

— Peter Hitchens

We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.

— Hugh Prather

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

— Adnan Pachachi

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.

— Anonymous

No theory of my own will ever stand in the way of my executing, in good faith, any order I may receive…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“The irony of rule followers is they often quote a lot of people that do not follow as many rules as they…

— Shannon L. Alder

You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.

— Marijane Meaker

Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the…

— Leonard Boswell

The essential thought must ever be that a man does not, except in his spiritual infancy, accept a statement merely because the…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at]…

— Ron Paul

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways…

— Lorne Michaels

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take…

— William Wilberforce

“So that, upon the whole, there must be some kind of subjection due from every man to every man, which cannot be…

— Jonathan Swift

Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and…

— Sai Baba

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently…

— John Wycliffe

Over and over again, people had to disobey lawful authority to follow the voice of their conscience. This obedience to God and…

— Dorothy Day

The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male…

— Samuel R. Delany

“The authority of society is imposed not arbitrarily or officially, but naturally. And it is because of this fact that its effect…

— Mikhail Bakunin

I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more…

— Sloane Crosley

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that…

— Christopher Hitchens

Human rights' are a fine thing, but how can we make ourselves sure that our rights do not expand at the expense…

— Anonymous

I have taken your advice, and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions; the last I shall have but…

— Michael Faraday

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

— Emma Goldman

I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.

— Henry B. Eyring

“Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.”

— Jurgen Appelo

When you literally overturn the teaching of Scripture to empower people who want power, you have given up biblical authority.

— John MacArthur

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

— John Charles Polanyi

I don't believe there is any constitutional or statutory authority for any president to shut down Mississippi's economy.

— Tate Reeves

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

— Calvin Coolidge

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

— David Foster Wallace

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

— Rand Paul

Knowing when to use your authority is an important as knowing how to use it.

— Varsha Sharma

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

— Lisa Yuskavage

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

— Ronald Reagan

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

— Joyce Carol Oates

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

— Carlo Wolff

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

— Keith Richards

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

— Nicolas Cage