There are ways to speak that can transform things, which has less to do with authority but is more about resourcefulness and… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Don't look for someone in whom to believe. Believe in yourself. The only authentic authority is your own original nature. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Consider looking into the weight of the advice over the amount of it.” — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
Old age, especially an honoured old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most. — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of… — Pope Innocent I Copy Share Image
The arrogance of some of those who are so damned sure they are right is just astounding. Scientific witch hunts are often… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look… — Percy Lubbock Copy Share Image
Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The beauty of new media is that no evidence is necessary. The brave blog-troopers have stormed the cockpit of news, and wrestled… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
The individuation of dharma practice occurs whenever priority is given to the resolution of a personal existential dilemma over the need to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Hopefully that will be seen as a response, a leadership responding to an issue and therefore one's authority, while it's not as… — Brian Cowen Copy Share Image
The Trans Pacific Partnership (and fast-track authority to whisk it through Congress without debate) is fast approaching. If you haven't seen our… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
Someone asks me what's my practice? I don't want the fear of being humiliated to have authority over me. I don't want… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments,… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“With regard to complex trauma survivors, self-determination and autonomy require that the therapist treat each client as the "authority" in determining the… — Christine A. Courtois Copy Share Image
The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear;… — Harry Gordon Selfridge Copy Share Image
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Give authority to some people and the grow, give it to others and they swell — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community. — Aeschines Copy Share Image
We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority. — Mahmoud Abbas Copy Share Image
One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned. — C. L. Wilson Copy Share Image
Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
My father represented authority, which meant—to me—that he could not also represent understanding. — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you. — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority. — Albert Meltzer Copy Share Image
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority. — Sam Neill Copy Share Image
“Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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