Authority Quotes · Page 17

I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

— Callie Khouri

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

— Oscar Wilde

To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the…

— R. C. Sproul

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

— Oscar Wilde

I've been used to being my own boss for a really long time, so I don't take to authority very well.

— Priyanka Chopra

Kids have this resistance to listening to adults and authority, period.

— Eric B

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up…

— Ruud Gullit

“They have the authority of ignorance and that is something you simply cannot combat.” – John Steinbeck”

— John Steinbeck

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They…

— Brandon Sanderson

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is…

— Ernestine Rose

Why did the Great Schism spurred a fundamentaland far-reaching debate about the nature of authority within the Church? Please Answer...)

— Brandon McCaw

I believe strongly that Occupy Wall Street had such limits because the local authorities were able to enforce, basically in our imaginations,…

— Edward Snowden

Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never…

— William Penn

The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty…

— Ronald Reagan

In the armies and among every ten men there is one of more life, of more heart, or at least of more…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers…

— Jacques Barzun

All the modern christian churches, who deny new revelation, have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of…

— Orson Pratt

Others of us are lost. We're forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything,…

— Lisa Unger

The vast majority of Muslims would never accept the lawfulness of an active homosexual lifestyle. I don't see that happening. But there…

— Hamza Yusuf

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the…

— Jerry Lewis

The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as…

— Joseph Sobran

Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is…

— Anonymous

“When you cease to be fearful of Authority, you become Authority. Neither Baker or Wily, or any of the members of Wily's…

— Various

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

— Jacob Bronowski

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

— Beth Moore

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

— Phil McGraw

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

— Giordano Bruno

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

— Saint Augustine

“Authority and I have no problems as long as authority recognizes that I am absolutely, always right.”

— Todd Travis

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

— Walter Benjamin

“One only has the authority (right) of the intent [bhaav-satta] of doing pratikraman and praktykhyan.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Authority is a responsible form of power; it should be given to responsible man.”

— Amit Kalantri

“And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates.”

— Hilari Bell

God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have…

— Pope Paul III

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

— Andy Stanley

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now…

— Horace Dyer

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

— Orson Scott Card

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

— Denis Leary

The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.

— Ovadia Yosef

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

— Anonymous