Authority Quotes · Page 28

I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.

— Benjamin Wittes

“Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.”

— Dan Pearce

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my…

— Grace Jones

In the end, God is the God of all authorities. He's the highest authority and He loves you and He can totally…

— Lacey Sturm

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

— Mark Durie

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

— Austin O'Malley

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

— Isaac Watts

Parents can learn that parental authority doesn't depend on knowing everything. The more you pretend, the more risk that it'll be traumatic…

— Seymour Papert

You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I…

— Charles Stanley

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand…

— Max De Pree

The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning to the civilian population not to pick up any of those pencils…

— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

We expect Serbian authorities to bring to justice all individuals at all levels who are responsible for their deaths without further delay.…

— Victoria Nuland

In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“[...] genuine power doesn't have to enforce it by example. Assumed power, on the other hand, requires folks' belief–it depends upon the…

— Steve Aylett

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in…

— Thomas Paine

Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it…

— Strobe Talbott

Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the…

— Lysander Spooner

The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political…

— Theodore White

The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party,…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think today's young women are an especially powerful breed. They will be taking on even greater challenges, which is why achieving…

— Mary Pope Osborne

In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done…

— Walter Brueggemann

I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority.

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

— Callie Khouri

Be honest to your action, be honest to your commitment, act with transparency, no one will challenge your authority.

— Anil Sinha

Question authority. Ask authority if it's lost weight or been working out recently, because it's really looking great.

— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic

“Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.”

— Edward Bond

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

— Edward Snowden

When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave.

— Malcolm Gladwell

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an…

— Galileo Galilei

Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.

— Anonymous

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

— Herbert Read

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

— Robert Greene

My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely…

— Nelson Mandela

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

— Stephen Covey

Until we stand in a place where we have met God, we have no authority to change a Nation

— Lou Engle

“God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita