Authority Quotes · Page 133

Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough…

— George Soros

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mothers seem to be in subtle competition with teachers. There is always an underlying fear that teachers will do a better job…

— Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest…

— Charles Evans Hughes

Meditation is the most extraordinary thing if you know how to do it, and you cannot possibly learn from anybody; and that's…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any…

— Carl Jung

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be…

— Robert A. Heinlein

One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.

— C. L. Wilson

Useful men, who do useful things, don't mind being treated as useless. But the useless always judge themselves as being important and…

— Paulo Coelho

I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit…

— Samuel Johnson

The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people,…

— Danny Danon

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

Theologians are all alike, of whatever religion or country they may be; their aim is always to wield despotic authority over men's…

— Frederick The Great

The American founders, when framing their governments, looked to the Bible for insights into human nature, civic virtue, social order, political authority…

— Daniel L Dreisbach

However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority.

— Brett Kavanaugh

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

— Albert Einstein

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not…

— Robert Creeley

Under Article II, all executive power is vested in one president of the United States. The regulatory state is Congress's efforts to…

— Ted Cruz

Football is a great deal like life in that it teaches that work, sacrifice, perseverance, competitive drive, selflessness, and respect for authority…

— Vince Lombardi

The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but in the nature of their relationship to…

— Stanley Milgram

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

— Bill Cosby

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired…

— Sam Storms

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely…

— Nelson Mandela

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

— Eric Metaxas

I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of…

— Alexander Herzen