Authority Quotes · Page 17

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

— Audre Lorde

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was…

— Amy Chua

I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.

— Arianna Huffington

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

— Jimmy Wales

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately

— Ron Wyden

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

— William Greider

The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism.

— David Tracy

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

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending…

— Bertrand Russell

All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men…

— Baron d'Holbach

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its…

— Camille Paglia

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

— Cardiss Collins

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

“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

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

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the…

— Herbert Spencer

I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like,…

— Gus Van Sant

Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it…

— Strobe Talbott

Perhaps more to the point for TBTF (Too Big To Fail bank), if a SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Institution) does fail I…

— Jeremy C. Stein

You sound as if you question the authority and the decision of the Oracle, who said he should die." "I do not.…

— Chinua Achebe

The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any…

— Tycho Brahe

As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout…

— Saint Augustine

“There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.”

— Bryant McGill

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

— Dean Acheson

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

— Rudy Giuliani

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

— Anne Bradstreet

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

— Andy Stanley

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

— Lou Barletta

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

— Saint Augustine

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

— P. J. O'Rourke

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and…

— Orson Scott Card

“Islamic cultures tend to establish people of high status as authorities, whereas the authority in Western culture is reason itself.”

— Nabeel Qureshi

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me.…

— Bessie Head

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

— Mary McCarthy

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.

— Michael Bassey Johnson

When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.

— James Hetfield