Authority Quotes · Page 33

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

A just government maintains a healthy tension between the claims of authority and the claims of liberty.

— Russell Kirk

A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.

— Keith Waterhouse

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.

— Dr. Dre

“Be not guided by the will-o'-the-wisp of policy, but by the pole-star of divine authority.”

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders

— John Culberson

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

— John Lancaster Spalding

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

— Stephen Graham

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent,…

— Charles Hodge

I wish to give officials greater discretion. The State's authority will be increased thereby. I wish to transform the non-political criminal police…

— Adolf Hitler

Wild rivers are earth's renegades, defying gravity, dancing to their own tunes, resisting the authority of humans, always chipping away, and eventually…

— Richard Bangs

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational…

— George Tenet

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing…

— Joseph Joubert

I have made it quite clear that a unified Ireland was one solution that is out. A second solution was a confederation…

— Margaret Thatcher

If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting…

— Arno Gruen

If you live your life and don't confess your sins to God Almighty through the authority of Christ and His blood, I'm…

— John Hagee

The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in…

— Pankaj Mishra

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was…

— Jonathan Sacks

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would…

— Strom Thurmond

The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass…

— Richard Hooker

When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for…

— William P. Young

The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the…

— Alexander Hamilton

I would say that the money that was invested in me by Warwickshire Education Authority, which they did for five years, has…

— Tim Pigott-Smith

People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind…

— Hermann Hesse

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

— Moon Unit Zappa

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

— Thomas Paine

Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.

— Katharina Zell

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

— Edward Gibbon

To have power is to have authority, to have authority is to have a voice, use it for the right reasons, and…

— Noel Casillas

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

— Molly Ivins

When u enter a room,hold your head up high and walk in like you own the place... No one will question your…

— Jade Williams

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

— Anonymous

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

— Chester Barnard

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

— Simon Sinek

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

— Carl Sagan

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in…

— Joshua

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

— Vince Lombardi

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

— Sam Sheppard

“As a believer, you have the authority to tell the devil what to do in the name of Jesus”

— Pedro Okoro

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

— Pierre Corneille