Authority Quotes · Page 35

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

— Mary McCarthy

“Islamic cultures tend to establish people of high status as authorities, whereas the authority in Western culture is reason itself.”

— Nabeel Qureshi

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me.…

— Bessie Head

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I've been there.

— Mr. T

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

— James Hetfield

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Parliamentary sovereignty - the right to pass laws as the supreme legal authority in the land, including laws that limit the powers…

— Nicky Morgan

Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will…

— R. C. Sproul

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward…

— Lincoln Steffens

Arizona did not make illegal, illegal. It is a crime to enter or remain in the U.S. in violation of federal law.…

— Russell Pearce

“Authority—when abused through micromanagement, intimidation, or verbal or nonverbal threats—makes people shut down & productivity ceases.”

— John Stoker

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are,…

— Tom Morello

The kind of "blind obedience" once theologized as the ultimate step to holiness, is itself blind. It blinds a person to the…

— Joan D. Chittister

I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these…

— Anthony B Pinn

Thought as such… is an act of negation, of resistance to that which is forced upon it; this is what thought has…

— Anonymous

The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and…

— Deb Caletti

“Rather than the one who gets angry, the world is more afraid of the one who does not get angry. Why? When…

— Dada Bhagwan

...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents…

— Julian Huxley

The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot…

— John Dewey

...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect…

— James Madison

Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school.…

— Martin Luther

I've received more and more emails from teachers saying that they are beginning to teach presence in their classroom without necessarily calling…

— Eckhart Tolle

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

— Anne Bradstreet

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

— Andy Stanley

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

— Lou Barletta

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

— Saint Augustine

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

— P. J. O'Rourke

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

— Malcolm Forbes

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

— Paul Weyrich

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

— Beth Moore

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

— Anonymous

God only promises to bless the nation that recognizes His authority.

— Tony Evans

We are not final because we are infallible, but infallible only because we are final.

— Robert H. Jackson

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

— John Engler

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

— Keith Richards

I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.

— Benjamin Wittes

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

— Alexander Hamilton

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my…

— Grace Jones