Authority Quotes · Page 34

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

— James Hillman

For many immigrant groups, lack of trust in authority is something they actually bring from the countries they come from.

— Kemi Badenoch

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

— Michel de Montaigne

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

— Thomas Jefferson

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

— Alexander Hamilton

Remember: you are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.

— Louise Hay

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

— William Shakespeare

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

— Keith O'Brien

Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have…

— Barack Obama

I used to feel that I had to be dictatorial in order to be respected, but after I did a couple of…

— Ron Howard

By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society…

— Pope John Paul II

I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the…

— Toby Young

The right is absolute ... government has no authority to forbid me from owning a firearm ... the debate is not about…

— Tom McClintock

The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over…

— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly…

— Brigham Young

The federal government neither has the power to site transmission lines, nor do we build them. That's done, as people know, in…

— Spencer Abraham

I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the…

— Carl Sagan

I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Anyone who thinks we can continue to have world wars but make them nice polite affairs by outlawing this weapon or that…

— Joel Henry Hildebrand

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which…

— Pope Pius XI

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would…

— Simone Weil

In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities…

— Adolf Hitler

We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly…

— Noah Feldman

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

— Albert Einstein

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all…

— Jack Kevorkian

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

— Jon Taffer

Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

— Phil Angelides

“What am I to learn?” puts you in a position of humility and authority in any instance.”

— Paul Selig

“no matter how much I resist authority, I am everywhere implicated in this text.”

— Juana Maria Rodriguez

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

— Emma Goldman

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

— Sebastian Thrun

“Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.”

— Amit Kalantri

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

— Banksy

Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith.

— G. C. Berkouwer

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.

— Robert Dallek

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to…

— Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and…

— Orson Scott Card