Authority Quotes · Page 3

And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority…

— Robert Fisk

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They…

— Brandon Sanderson

By 18th century standards, they [Great Britain] were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the…

— Charles R. Morris

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

— Margaret Atwood

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

Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of…

— John Tillotson

“Fit yourself where you are before you fix yourself where you can be!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers…

— Frank Pittman

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

— Marie de France

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions,…

— Polybius

The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four…

— Brian Johnson

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because…

— Bertrand Russell

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles…

— David Shapiro

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science…

— Stephen Hawking

When a secretary of state illegally stores her emails on a private server, deletes 33,000 of them so the authorities can't see…

— Donald Trump

Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!" "Oh, for goodness' sake!" Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at…

— Alexandra Adornetto

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the…

— Laurence Steinberg

I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told…

— John Oliver

The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities.…

— Timothy Leary

If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out…

— Randy Lerner

You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

— Anonymous

Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to…

— Dallin H. Oaks

[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and…

— James Madison

One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

— M. Russell Ballard