Authority Quotes · Page 29

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

— Oscar Wilde

Kids have this resistance to listening to adults and authority, period.

— Eric B

I've been used to being my own boss for a really long time, so I don't take to authority very well.

— Priyanka Chopra

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up…

— Ruud Gullit

“They have the authority of ignorance and that is something you simply cannot combat.” – John Steinbeck”

— John Steinbeck

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

— Beth Moore

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

— Phil McGraw

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

— Giordano Bruno

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian…

— Hank Azaria

We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to…

— Henry James Sumner Maine

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and…

— Ben Shahn

Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the…

— Stuart Symington

A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got…

— Jay Leno

[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to…

— Glenn Reynolds

You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority,…

— Tito Colliander

That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce…

— John Marshall

The pre-war empire had been sufficiently informal and sufficiently cheap for Parliament to claim authority over it without having to concern itself…

— Linda Colley

Through the plan of prayer, God actually is inviting redeemed man into full partnership with Him; not in making the divine decisions,…

— Paul Billheimer

The besetting sin of able men is impatience of contradiction and of criticism. Even those who do their best to resist the…

— Thomas Huxley

I was not so comfortable with my new authority that I could say 'We eat the chicken now!' but the magus had…

— Megan Whalen Turner

most Americans are in deep awe of things-as-they-are. Even with everything this obviously out of control, they still tell themselves that those…

— Barbara Deming

Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it…

— Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

“Reason is independent of all external authority, is outwardly autonomous; it is not, however, inwardly independent in relation to the whole life…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

— Saint Augustine

“One only has the authority (right) of the intent [bhaav-satta] of doing pratikraman and praktykhyan.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

— Walter Benjamin

“Authority and I have no problems as long as authority recognizes that I am absolutely, always right.”

— Todd Travis

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

— William P. Young

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

— George Will

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.

— Nasser Hussain

I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.

— Boris Johnson

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.

— Anohni

“Fit yourself where you are before you fix yourself where you can be!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

— Henry Cloud

The economic and social upheaval the CDC caused by abusing their authority is nothing short of unprecedented.

— Anna Paulina Luna

Some will say that I have an issue with authority, but I just like to question things.

— Scarlett Moffatt

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

— Callie Khouri