Authority Quotes · Page 27

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

— Charles de Gaulle

We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

— Steven J Lawson

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”

— Anne Bradstreet

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

— Craig Groeschel

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

— Alan Tudyk

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

— Vernon Jordan

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

— Larry Burkett

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

— Thomas Huxley

In 1968 the Arts Council managed to get a grant from the treasury to buy up a lot of derelict touring theatres…

— Timothy West

No matter what authority Satan and his subjects have temporarily been allowed in this world system, Christ can pull rank anytime He…

— Beth Moore

“The more a man departs from lawful authority, that is, authority normally constituted, whether by God or by the nature of things,…

— Antonin Sertillanges

The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would…

— Doug Bandow

There's been no top authority saying what marijuana does to you. I really don't know that much about it. I tried it…

— John Wayne

Saul Gorn, an authority on machine oi automated language who has expanded his interests from the use of the computer foi information…

— Saul Gorn

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character…

— Edmund Burke

In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty…

— Strobe Talbott

I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where…

— Donald Miller

Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her…

— Alfie Kohn

I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like,…

— Gus Van Sant

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the…

— Herbert Spencer

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could, with equal validity,…

— Jon Meacham

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his…

— David Hume

You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not.…

— Chinua Achebe

Perhaps more to the point for TBTF (Too Big To Fail bank), if a SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Institution) does fail I…

— Jeremy C. Stein

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

— Marie de France

“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.

— Kin Hubbard

I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath.

— Joe Royle

When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.

— Shelby Steele

The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.

— Walker Stapleton

I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.

— Jean Drapeau

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him…

— Terry Pratchett

“Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot.”

— B. A Santamaria

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

— John Wooden

The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.

— Adam Cohen

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

— Mark Twain

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces…

— Adrienne Rich

“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Keith Richards

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

— Alexander Hamilton