Authority Quotes · Page 20

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

— Henry Seymour Conway

In Kashmir, you need utmost cooperation between all centres of authority.

— Rajiv Gandhi

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

— Ernest Hemingway

I have a friend named Doris who argues, on good authority, that the single biggest cause of global warming is menopause.

— Dave Barry

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

— Barack Obama

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

— Bernard Bailyn

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

— William Shakespeare

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

— Germaine Greer

“WORK RULES…FOR BUILDING A GREAT CULTURE Think of your work as a calling, with a mission that matters. Give people slightly more…

— Laszlo Bock

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing…

— Samuel Johnson

In a couple of years, the Chinese will be seen as regular participants in international industry. Their companies have to report to…

— Daniel Yergin

A woman, by nature, is more emotional than a man and is not equipped to approach certain responsibilities with the authority that…

— Lorne Greene

For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that…

— Ron Wyden

A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press…

— Stephen Colbert

Let us choose to unite the power of markets with the authority of universal ideals. Let us choose to reconcile the creative…

— Kofi Annan

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions…

— Jeffrey Sachs

It's so interesting that when I finished 'The X-Files' in 2002, the - call it the political and cultural climate in America…

— Chris Carter

I have taken your advice and the names used are anode cathode anions cations and ions the last I shall have but…

— Michael Faraday

Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon…

— Alexander Hamilton

“It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the…

— James Madison

If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever,…

— Thomas Paine

Ultimately, the court is heading to a doctrine of 'separation of campaign and state.' This doctrine, like separation of church and state…

— Bradley A. Smith

The power of the legislative being derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution, can be no other than…

— John Locke

I mean not to accuse any one, but to take the shame upon myself, in common, indeed, with the whole parliament of…

— William Wilberforce

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the…

— John Oliver

“Writer platform is comparable to the listenership of a specific radio station or the viewership of a particular television program.”

— Shawna Morey

“No one needs to give you permission to be great. You hold that authority.”

— Kevin Abdulrahman

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

— Ted Cruz

“AI can not make you an expert or an authority. AI can only make you appear to be an expert or an…

— Loren Weisman

Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of…

— Joy Reid

The world doesn't understand the system here. The authority of the people. You don't understand it.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

— Maria Semple

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I…

— John Leguizamo

“...insisting that you control the topic of behavioral conversation ensures accountability by students...”

— Doug Lemov

Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

— R. C. Sproul

Reject all given authority. Believe nothing, accept no one's words because they're meaningless. Do not listen to anyone.

— Jeremy Limn

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

— Linus Torvalds

We need a regime change in this country… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

— Jesse Jackson

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of…

— Lee Haney