Authority Quotes · Page 43

“if the belief or practice is ancient, foreign, and preferably Eastern, it has immediate authority and wisdom.”

— Karen Stollznow

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

— Robert J. Shiller

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

— Craig Groeschel

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”

— Anne Bradstreet

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

— Charles de Gaulle

We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

— Steven J Lawson

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

— D. H. Lawrence

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.

— Clare Short

Certainly, when you have shoulder pads on that go up to your ears, you hold yourself a certain way. You speak with…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that ‘it is the nature and…

— Ezra Taft Benson

We show deference to the civil authorities when they respect the divine origin of their power and when they serve the people…

— Angelo Scola

Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority…

— Pope Pius XI

The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy…

— Tony Evans

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.…

— Oscar Wilde

I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at…

— Gordon Brown

We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: That South Africa belongs to all…

— Nelson Mandela

In the sixties, the recycling of pop culture turning it into Pop art and camp had its own satirical zest. Now we're…

— Pauline Kael

“No authority is wholly natural or native; when we’re not borrowing from our neighbors, we’re borrowing from our ancestors. One reason art…

— Rivka Galchen

So the dream is continually reminding us of the part which our conscious is forgetting. It does not speak with any absolute…

— Frances G. Wickes

What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was…

— Victor Serge

The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life.…

— Jeff Sharlet

So many of the models of courage we've had, ones that are still taught to boys and girls, are about going out…

— Riane Eisler

So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things…

— Albert Hadley

In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but,…

— Plato

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

— Vernon Jordan

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

— Alan Tudyk

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

— Marie de France

“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

— Thomas Huxley

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

— Larry Burkett

The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.

— Walker Stapleton

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.

— Kin Hubbard

When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.

— Shelby Steele

I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath.

— Joe Royle

“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young…

— Richard Dawkins

“Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot.”

— B. A Santamaria

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

— Mark Twain

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces…

— Adrienne Rich

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

— John Wooden

The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.

— Adam Cohen