Authority Quotes · Page 21

I've studied kings, so I'm very aware of the feet of clay of authority.

— David Starkey

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

— Roger Williams

The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.

— John Bevere

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

— Ted Nelson

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed…

— Anthony Trollope

“if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority. Luke”

— Walter Jon Williams

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

— Mark Twain

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed…

— Charles Fort

Authority doesn't have to be concentrated in me when I'm hiring outstanding professionals who know their jobs. I will be there if…

— Kathy Hochul

What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies…Fiction is democratic, it…

— Anonymous

The Homeland Security department doesn't have tasking authority in the intelligence community. They can ask for stuff, but they can't direct anything…

— David Hunt

We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside… If I had the…

— John Ashcroft

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under…

— Ted Cruz

Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will,…

— William Shakespeare

Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in…

— Alan Greenspan

Gym class was, of course, where the strongest, best-looking kids were made captains and chose us spazzes last. More important, it was…

— Ayelet Waldman

Awaken your heart to kindness and mercy for the people and love and tenderness for them. Never, never act with them like…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Supreme authority in both church and home has been divinely vested in the male as the representative of Christ, who is Head…

— Elisabeth Elliot

When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a…

— David Bowie

Although objectively greater demands are placed on this authority, it operates less as a public opinion giving a rational foundation to the…

— Jurgen Habermas

So long as you believe in a Two-Faced God, you will create ecstasy and terror side by side. You have imagined a…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The president has a duty and a right to oversee the FBI, and you know, he properly delegate the law enforcement to…

— Laura Ingraham

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

— Albert Mohler

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

— Chris Hayes

“It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.”

— C.J. Langenhoven

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

— Cornelius Cardew

The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.

— Ted Cruz

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

— Alan Thicke

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

— James MacGregor Burns

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

— Malcolm Forbes

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.

— James Kelman

“Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace”

— Aaron Sorkin

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

— Gerry Spence

“-commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over…

— Orsen Card

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting…

— John Lennon

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

— Joyce Cary

We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

— Yitzhak Rabin

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

— Randall Munroe