Authority Quotes · Page 34

“The lawmakers possess the authority that commands the obedience of the people.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

— Joseph Joubert

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

— Robert Greene

The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal…

— Yuval Noah Harari

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

— Francis Bacon

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier…

— Epictetus

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

— Chuck Todd

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

— Philipp Melanchthon

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions…

— Karl Popper

“...each person is required to ask, 'what is my authority?' - on what do you base your decisions? if it's yourself, then…

— John Geddes

I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in…

— Michael Gove

California is, in many respects, best understood as a nation-state. In the environmental-energy realm, California possesses far-reaching legal authorities that other states…

— James M Strock

Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed…

— Phyllis Bennis

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a…

— Anonymous

Of all the opportunities my priesthood authority affords, there is none grander than the privilege of being in one of our temples…

— M. Russell Ballard

I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over…

— John F. Kerry

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of…

— Dorothy Day

Later, with time, I learned that although all men are capable of good and evil, the worst among them are those who,…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see…

— Yekaterina Samutsevich

I think now that I've tried directing, I'm not interested in doing adaptations anymore. I could do an adaptation of someone else's…

— Charlie Kaufman

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my…

— Henry David Thoreau

So, I think that for the authorities to say now that calling for sanctions will prevent dialogue is a ploy to stop…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The…

— Anita DeFrantz

The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest…

— Thomas Huxley

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

— Ralph Fiennes

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

— Gustav Heinemann

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

— Barbara Tuchman

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to…

— Raymond Chandler

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

— Oscar Wilde

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

— George Mason

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

— Patrick Lencioni

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

— Oscar Wilde

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere

— Ronald Reagan

“Believers infiltrate the enemy’s territory with knowledge and power.”

— Sherry K. White

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

— Denis Diderot

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

— Haile Selassie

This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

— Ayn Rand