Authority Quotes · Page 36

“One must require of each what each is able to give. Authority rests first of all upon reason.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

— Ambrose Bierce

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

— Michael Craig-Martin

“i tried running away from my destiny, but it kept hunting me, until i realize that, generations depends on what i carry…

— Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

— Ernest Hemingway

In Kashmir, you need utmost cooperation between all centres of authority.

— Rajiv Gandhi

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

— Henry Seymour Conway

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

— Bernard Bailyn

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which…

— James Madison

Hillary Clinton was personally presiding over the dissolution of moral authority - particularly applied to presidents - because she looked the other…

— Rush Limbaugh

I deem no government safe which is under the vassalage of any self-constituted authorities, or any other authority than that of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the…

— Patricia Arquette

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is…

— Saint Augustine

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of…

— Van Wyck Brooks

As president, I will appoint tough, independent authorities to strengthen anti-trust enforcement and really scrutinize mergers and acquisitions, so the big don't…

— Hillary Clinton

What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you…

— Alexander Berkman

There certainly are situations where I feel not empowered or uninspired. Particularly when the person's agenda is to intimidate through abusing their…

— Tori Amos

The difference between [socialism and fascism] is superficial and purely formal, but it is significant psychologically: it brings the authoritarian nature of…

— Ayn Rand

“You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or…

— Joseph Lewis

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices…

— Henry Steele Commager

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and…

— Gautama Buddha

“We have already seen that when positive authority suggests a change in behavior, the recipient will accept it provided he is capable…

— Milton Rokeach

I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed…

— Peace Pilgrim

I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc.…

— Jon Foreman

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

— Dave Barry

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

— Barack Obama

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

— William Shakespeare

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the…

— John Oliver

“Writer platform is comparable to the listenership of a specific radio station or the viewership of a particular television program.”

— Shawna Morey

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

— Germaine Greer

“AI can not make you an expert or an authority. AI can only make you appear to be an expert or an…

— Loren Weisman

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

— Ted Cruz

Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of…

— Joy Reid

“No one needs to give you permission to be great. You hold that authority.”

— Kevin Abdulrahman

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I…

— John Leguizamo

The world doesn't understand the system here. The authority of the people. You don't understand it.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

— R. C. Sproul

“...insisting that you control the topic of behavioral conversation ensures accountability by students...”

— Doug Lemov