Authority Quotes · Page 35

He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage…

— Confucius

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

— James M. Kouzes

The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.

— Colin Powell

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

— Sherman Alexie

One of the things that I want to make sure everybody understands is that when you delegate the authority, you have to…

— Ron Rivera

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

— Dalai Lama

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

— Antonio Negri

“There is no night porter wandering about in King's. The authorities pay you the compliment, ugly gate-crasher, of treating you as a…

— Whipplesnaith

“The essential ingredient of authorship is authority. You hunt it out in a library, you chase it down the street, or you…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A Congresswoman must look like a girl, act like a lady, think like a man, speak on any given subject with authority…

— Cardiss Collins

“Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit? [Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection…

— Abraham Calovius

The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine…

— C. I. Scofield

I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special…

— Anna Louise Strong

Love’? What do you know about love?” "It’s at the heart of every story,” Rollo said with authority. “If humans could avoid…

— Jessica Day George

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say:…

— Catherynne M. Valente

We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at…

— Marquis de Lafayette

“Jesus doesn't come asking if He can hang out with us. He commands us to follow Him. He has total authority and…

— Justin Buzzard

I think that's really the kind of exponential factor in being in a punk-rock band or making music videos and movies -pirates…

— Gore Verbinski

We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority…

— Annie Besant

The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard…

— June Allyson

There exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated...It has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring…

— John Holdren

People who reject transcendent authority can no longer persuade one another through rational arguments; everything is reduced to personal opinion. Debates about…

— Charles Colson

At the beginning of this year also, I called upon the North Korean side to open dialog between the responsible authorities of…

— Jimmy Carter

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

— Anonymous

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Questioning authority doesn't make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination”

— LDarnell

Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

— Mark Dever

“It's math, ' Nora says. 'Math has no authority here, ' June tells her 'Math is everywhere, June.”

— Casey McQuiston

The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step.

— Maria Montessori

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

— Robert Creeley

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

— Saint Basil

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.

— Neal A. Maxwell

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

— Vivek Wadhwa

When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.

— Rick Wilson

Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

— Stanley Milgram

It's far from clear that restoring Christian social authority is an appropriate aim of politics in the first place.

— Josh Hawley

The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

— Ronald Reagan

“You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.”

— Louise Hay

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero