Authority Quotes · Page 38

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting…

— John Lennon

We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

— Yitzhak Rabin

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

— Joyce Cary

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

— Randall Munroe

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

— William Shakespeare

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

— Samuel R. Delany

There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.

— Bernard Law Montgomery

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

The faculty know what they need to develop and they need to work with an administrator with the authority do get it…

— Henry Rosovsky

Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope,…

— Martin Luther

“But I knew something that Elena hadn't. That the measure of a true queen didn't lie in her magic. It had more…

— Kimberly Derting

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible,…

— Thomas Hobbes

I no longer gave a sick dog's drop for the wisdom, the reliability and the authority of the public's literary mind, those…

— Norman Mailer

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add…

— Rashida Jones

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

— G. Edward Griffin

For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is…

— John Sung

When one has come to accept a certain course as duty he has a pleasant sense of relief and of lifted responsibility,…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Although one never really knows what one's associates think of one deep down, I believe I was easy to work with, even…

— Guy de Rothschild

We want to fan the flames of Christians for whom inerrancy and the authority of Scripture are not mere shibboleths, but part…

— D. A. Carson

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the…

— Benito Mussolini

Jesus , in some respects, was an anarchist, for he had no idea of civil government . That government seems to him…

— Ernest Renan

... there are moments in which the teacher, as the authority talks to the learners, says what must be done, establishes limits…

— Paulo Freire

The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant,…

— Thomas Carlyle

The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference…

— Edward Gibbon

I think teenagers at any time are testing to see how far they can go and where authority comes in.

— Emily Meade

Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.

— T. B. Joshua

“Authority ... cannot be a darksome power that compels us to subject ourselves without reason.”

— G C Berkouwer

I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.

— Fiona Bruce

They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you…

— Adelard of Bath

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

— Arleigh Burke

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

— A.J. Ayer

The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

— Maureen Dowd

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

— Bill Ferguson

The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

— Harry S. Truman

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

— Patrick O'Brian

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction…

— Pentti Linkola

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government...

— Eleanor Roosevelt

With authority comes the ability to victimize; with power comes choice

— Kalyani Rajalingham