Authority Quotes · Page 48

When a new idea assaults the power of established authority, authority always screams out that morality has been affronted. It makes no…

— Mary Heaton Vorse

“The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot be forced, and they have…

— Boris Pasternak

During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the…

— Edward Alsworth Ross

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

— Jurgen Klinsmann

[M]orality is not a ritualistic obedience to a code of behavior imposed by an external authority. It is rather a healthy habit…

— Henepola Gunaratana

It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President…

— John Jay Hooker

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

— Mark Twain

The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice…

— John Lahr

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority…

— Noam Chomsky

When overpowering authority or leadership intervenes in a team, it can affect the team by (1) throwing the team off track, (2)…

— J. Richard Hackman

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State…

— Emma Goldman

The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think…

— Anonymous

“In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces…

— Adrienne Rich

Now, we can't stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time - if we exercise the…

— Joyce Meyer

Anarchy, when it works to destroy authority in all its aspects, when it demands the abrogation of laws and the abolition of…

— Peter Kropotkin

All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to…

— John Locke

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

— Richard Dawkins

A leader is only able to lead others because he disciplines himself. The person who does not know how to bow to…

— J. Oswald Sanders

We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights,…

— Mark Driscoll

“But there is no conceivable way of making people do things they do not wish to do. What is possible is to…

— Bertrand Russell

Every man who truly loves a woman, and every woman who truly loves a man, hopes and dreams that their companionship will…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.

— Alden Ehrenreich

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

— William P. Young

There are two ways of forming an opinion. One is the scientific method; the other, the scholastic. To the scientific mind, experimental…

— Robert A. Heinlein