Authority Quotes · Page 19

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

— Carlo Wolff

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet.

— Keith Richards

The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.

— Naftali Bennett

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

— Nicolas Cage

Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence.

— James Hunter

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

— Paul Tillich

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

— Hugh Lofting

“Probation? How amusing. Probation would imply a source of authority.”

— Kami Garcia

The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has…

— Sydney J. Harris

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be…

— Abraham Lincoln

In 1600, when Shakespeare's audience at the Globe heard 'Hamlet' for the first time, every one of them knew very well what…

— Neil MacGregor

I played a loving but stern figure of authority and it seems the kids who write me want that kind of a…

— Lorne Greene

Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The…

— Don Bluth

“Authority seems to be nothing other than the vanishing-point of textuality. And Nature is authority whose textual origins have been forgotten.”

— Barbara Johnson

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national…

— Alexander Hamilton

I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies…

— Chris Carter

If you are a czar or a king or a president or someone that wants to control those below them you do…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in…

— Germaine Greer

Communion with God as we hear his voice is rich. We receive his meanings; we submit to his authority; we grow by…

— Vern Poythress

It's symbolic of how I feel, with cameras on every street corner. Being watched all the time, having my sense of freedom…

— Nitin Sawhney

I believe that religious witness should not mobilize public authority to impose a view where a decision is inherently private in nature…

— Edward Kennedy

“When we are babies...we need an authoritative figure to guide and take care of us. We ask no questions about that authority…

— Charlotte Rogan

There is something very consistent about governance in the Arab world. Among the Arab countries today in which there is a modicum…

— Michael Totten

Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention…

— Anthony Standen

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

— Wilhelm Ostwald

As a believer just because you gain more fame or authority doesn't mean anything, this means you have more feet to wash

— Andy Stanley

Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live.

— C. S. Lewis

“You have authority in your mouth, hence don't need to be afraid; but rather positively affirm!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

— Scott Lynch

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

— Alan Moore

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough…

— Hannah Arendt

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

— Nikolai Gogol

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they…

— Cyprian

“One must require of each what each is able to give. Authority rests first of all upon reason.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite

— Michael O'Leary

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

— Kelley Armstrong

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

— Anonymous

“i tried running away from my destiny, but it kept hunting me, until i realize that, generations depends on what i carry…

— Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

— Michael Craig-Martin

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

— Ambrose Bierce