Authority Quotes · Page 3

Convention is the ruler of all.

— Pindar

Authority is quite degrading.

— Oscar Wilde

“I'm a lion in a strange land.”

— Criss Jami

“What matters is not who says it, but what is being said.”

— Jesaja Senones

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

— Frank A. Clark

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

— Peter Ueberroth

“What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.”

— Patti Digh

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

— Tacitus

“My name is Richard Werner. Dick. You can call me Dick.”

— Ray Palla

“A man might share his wealth, but never his authority.”

— Amit Kalantri

I grew up really being able to stand up to authority.

— Winnie Byanyima

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

— Andy Stanley

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

— Anne Bradstreet

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

— Saint Augustine

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

— Lou Barletta

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

— P. J. O'Rourke

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

— Albert Einstein

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all…

— Jack Kevorkian

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

— Jon Taffer

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested…

— Henry David Thoreau

Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and…

— Sam Graves

It's a different world because of the Internet and bloggers. Now, every editor is concerned about speed because every minute counts. Speed…

— Robert Hilburn

The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their…

— Josh Hawley

The idea of authority, and therefore the respect for authority, is an anti-Semitic notion. It is in Catholicism, in Christianity, in the…

— Kadmi Cohen

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What I believe about the young age of the earth comes out of taking the Bible as written. And I've said numerous…

— Ken Ham

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be…

— George Q. Cannon

What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]……

— Donald Miller

While there are many experts in the psychoanalysis of individuals, there seems to be little active authority or understanding in the matter…

— Michael Leunig

“But, of course, what mattered most of all was my deep-seated hatred of authority, my monstrous individualism, my lawlessness. No word in…

— C.S. Lewis

Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order. ...…

— Philip Rieff

We should never invoke the spirit of antiquity as our authority. Spirits are peculiar things; they cannot be grasped with the hands…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

This storm you talk of . . .t will be such a one, my son, as the world has not seen before.…

— James Hilton

“organizing atheists has been compared to herding cats, because they tend to think independently and will not conform to authority. But a…

— Richard Dawkins

We do not diminish the value of what women or men achieve in any worthy endeavor or career -- we all benefit…

— D. Todd Christofferson

Just because you can, doesn't always mean you should.

— Ankita

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.

— Max Anders

Think for yourself and question authority.

— Timothy Leary

Fear not their means of control then they have none.

— Deri Isaac

I'm no authority for anyone to actually take seriously.

— Ti West