The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing for 11 years as a stand-up is having problems with authority and… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority. — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He… — Michael Enzi Copy Share Image
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers. — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
No peace and security among mankind-let alone common friendship-can ever exist as long as people think that governments get their authority from… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional. — Joe Paterno Copy Share Image
Some people think that in order to lead a morally decent life one may sometimes have to forego the possibility of having… — Samuel Scheffler Copy Share Image
In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is… — Plato Copy Share Image
You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the… — Norbert Reithofer Copy Share Image
“Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that. — James Kelman Copy Share Image
The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to… — Guy Standing Copy Share Image
“Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination” — LDarnell Copy Share Image
Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
