Authority Quotes · Page 22

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

— Samuel R. Delany

There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.

— Bernard Law Montgomery

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

— William Shakespeare

I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.

— Fiona Bruce

Put on the new man by renewing your mind with God's Word and submitting your body to the authority of that Word.

— T. B. Joshua

“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.”

— Loren Weisman

I think teenagers at any time are testing to see how far they can go and where authority comes in.

— Emily Meade

“Authority ... cannot be a darksome power that compels us to subject ourselves without reason.”

— G C Berkouwer

“It’s being someone who trusts her inner authority, and doesn’t look outside herself for validation and/or approval. It’s being someone who uses…

— Lisa Lister

A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs…

— Stanley Milgram

Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the…

— Herman Kahn

Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership…

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

“You must never be limited by external authority, whether it be vested in a church, man, or book. It is your right…

— Bhagat Singh Thind

And, in general, that branch which is to act ultimately and without appeal on any law is the rightful expositor of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

“There is an interplay between great leadership, events, trends, the organization, the people in it, the market 'out there' that goes far…

— Phil Dourado

We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their…

— Abraham Kuyper

If policy makers and program managers participate in an interdisciplinary assessment team, make informal visits to local families and have in-depth conversations…

— Ruth Simmons

Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They…

— Walter Lippmann

The use of force stands in need of control by a public neutral authority, in the interests of liberty no less than…

— Bertrand Russell

The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts…

— Larry Ellison

A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can…

— John Roberts

By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's…

— Diana DeGette

It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another…

— George Santayana

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

— Arleigh Burke

They know how to think. From the Arabs I have learned one thing: if you are led by Authority, that means you…

— Adelard of Bath

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

— Maureen Dowd

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

— A.J. Ayer

The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

— Harry S. Truman

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

— Bill Ferguson

With authority comes the ability to victimize; with power comes choice

— Kalyani Rajalingham

Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

— Napoleon Hill

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government...

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

— Patrick O'Brian

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction…

— Pentti Linkola

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

— L. Tom Perry

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

— John Wycliffe

Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach.

— Donald Rumsfeld