You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
What gives the Word of God authority is simply the fact that it is the word of God! — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
It's always interesting when you play a part and then suddenly people think you're an authority on the subject. — Mark Strong Copy Share Image
Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Our liberty depends on our education, our laws, and habits . . . it is founded on morals and religion, whose authority… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Clothe yourself in your authority. You speak not only as yourself or for yourself. You will speak and act with the courage… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
“The prestige of royal power has evaporated, but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. People nowadays despise… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance. — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
In a government framed for durable liberty, not less regard must be paid to giving the magistrate a proper degree of authority,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The authorities teach that next to the first emanation, which is the Son coming out of the Father, the angels are most… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
People who use LSD today know how to use it. Therefore, I hope that the health authorities will get the insight that… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority,… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
I try to make art which celebrates doubt and uncertainty. Which provokes answers but doesn't give them. Which withholds absolute meaning by… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
Something I have "authority" on is animal rights. If I were not already so deep into the path I've taken, deep in… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
When you have an authority figure tell you something that distinguishes you, there's a little bit of a badge of courage or… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
'Rights' are granted; 'duties' are enforced. To speak of rights and duties is to think in terms of authority. — Laurance Labadie Copy Share Image
“A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.” — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
“God is all powerful. God is mighty. God is has power over all rulers and authorities.” — Laillah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country. — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine. — Gene Hackman Copy Share Image
I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes,… — Robert Peel Copy Share Image
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement. — Juvenal Copy Share Image
My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution. — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too. — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
When I'm around authority, I still feel like I'm 14 or 15 years old. — Kyle Chandler Copy Share Image
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes Copy Share Image
The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
