Authority Quotes · Page 137

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and…

— Henry Steele Commager

Definition of Trust: Giving someone the authority to destroy you completely, but having the confidence that they would never do it.

— Ritu Ghatourey

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild…

— Jacob Bronowski

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

— Kenny Cunningham

Iran has a young population, and the desire to get out from under conservative religious social restrictions and to be able to…

— Lourdes Garcia-Navarro

Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and…

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Deb Caletti

Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to…

— John Calvin

The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power"…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively…

— Tim Kaine

But the government spying on me was not done under the authority of a court warrant. That's why my case is even…

— Sharyl Attkisson

[O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never…

— Thomas Jefferson

The interesting thing about blockchain is that it has made it possible for humanity to reach a consensus about a piece of…

— Jaan Tallinn

“The authority of the Church was thrown over by the authority of the state. Twenty years only have passed, and the authority…

— Lucy Beckett

Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not…

— Ron Paul

But the dignity of human life is unbreakably linked to the existence of the personal-infinite God. It is because there is a…

— Francis Schaeffer

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open…

— Paul Fussell

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

— Kin Hubbard

We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at…

— Marquis de Lafayette

The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have…

— Gene Wolfe

You are your own highest authority. Do not place your source of authority outside of you. Go within to see if the…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.

— Robert Breault

While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals,…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and…

— Noam Chomsky