My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
I just don't like authority. I do like authority when I respect it. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Scripture ... does not derive its authority from the fact that we use it, not even when we use Scripture in faith. — G. C. Berkouwer Copy Share Image
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to… — Houston Stewart Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow. — Gary Player Copy Share Image
The decision makers face each other. No safety screen stands between the issues and the highest authorities. — George P. Bush Copy Share Image
Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority. — Tavis Smiley Copy Share Image
“For there is no virtue, the honor and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
For new media reactionaries...the problem is technology, the endless distractions of the Internet, the breakdown of authority in an age of blogs… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
One of the greatest things in life is that no one has the authority to tell you what you want to be.… — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
And I think, in the end, that is the best definition of journalism I have heard; to challenge authority - all authority… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
This power, this authority, Soviet power: they killed everybody who could make any resistance, who could explain his own way of thinking… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Authority is the source of knowledge, but the reason of mankind is the norm by which all authority is judged. Eóin, the… — Johannes Scotus Eriugena Copy Share Image
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The effect of our knowledge rather ought to be, first, to teach us reverence and fear; and, secondly, to induce us, under… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I have always been, am, and propose to remain a mere scholar. All that I have ever proposed to myself is to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“others, without further ceremony ascribing to the strongest an authority over the weakest, have immediately struck out government, without thinking of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter who the candidates are. It doesn't matter the campaign. You know that's gonna happen. The Washington Post is gonna… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
The education of young citizens ought to form them to good manners, to accustom them to labor, to inspire them with a… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image