Authority Quotes · Page 21

It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.

— Eleanor Catton

As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority.

— Tom Gjelten

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

— Mark Durie

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

— Isaac Watts

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

— Austin O'Malley

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

— Keith Richards

I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.

— Benjamin Wittes

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to…

— Anthony Jeselnik

The roots of copyright lie in censorship. It was easy for state and church to control thought by controlling the scribes, but…

— Stephan Kinsella

Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of…

— Pope Innocent I

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part…

— Norm Dicks

I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this,…

— Margaret Cho

Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it.…

— Ernst Junger

The President is bound to stop at the limits prescribed by our Constitution and law to the authorities in his hands, [and…

— Thomas Jefferson

The objective of US authorities was to terminate their existence as peoples - not as random individuals. This is the very definition…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it…

— Thomas Jefferson

there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the…

— James Madison

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

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

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

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

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

“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

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

— Alexander Hamilton

In the end, God is the God of all authorities. He's the highest authority and He loves you and He can totally…

— Lacey Sturm

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my…

— Grace Jones

“Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.”

— Dan Pearce

When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.

— Shelby Steele

I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain, but I'm wasting my breath.

— Joe Royle

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.

— Kin Hubbard

The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.

— Walker Stapleton

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him…

— Terry Pratchett

I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.

— Jean Drapeau

“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young…

— Richard Dawkins

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

— Adrienne Rich

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

— Mark Twain

The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.

— Adam Cohen

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

— John Wooden

“Respect for authority is a disease, no different from the Venusian Gook Rot.”

— B. A Santamaria