Authority Quotes · Page 23

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

— Karl Marx

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

— Nigella Lawson

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

— A. C. Benson

Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

— Dana Gould

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

— Joseph Addison

God created the races. He created different backgrounds and cultures. But He created them all to operate under His authority.

— Tony Evans

Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.

— Gary Zukav

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

— Erich Fromm

Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be…

— Haim Ginott

It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel…

— Ted Cruz

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority…

— Sibel Edmonds

“There is a circularity here I do not doubt. I am defending the Bible by the Bible. Circularity of a kind is…

— John M. Frame

Many feel that in today's climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, 'ends justify the means' mindset…

— Martin Luther King III

Why did the Great Schism spurred a fundamentaland far-reaching debate about the nature of authority within the Church? Please Answer...)

— Brandon McCaw

No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is…

— Ernestine Rose

I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy…

— Edith Sitwell

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

The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass…

— Richard Hooker

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would…

— Strom Thurmond

In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was…

— Jonathan Sacks

The recent past is full of diverse examples of writers - Mahfouz in Egypt, Pamuk in Turkey, and more interestingly, Pasternak in…

— Pankaj Mishra

The boss drives people; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on good will. The boss inspires fear;…

— Harry Gordon Selfridge

We need to change the system. We need to overthrow, not the government, as the authorities are always accusing the Communists 'of…

— Dorothy Day

People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind…

— Hermann Hesse

It's one of the guiding philosophies of my life - not fearing any authority on earth.

— Ezra Furman

The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.

— Thomas Hooker

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

— Eric Metaxas

“Morals; the pathetic answer to authority Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?”

— M. COCHET M

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

— John Calvin

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

— Mahmoud Abbas

“When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?”

— Red Tash

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

— Anonymous

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning…

— Ken Ham

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

— James Hunter

Becoming an authority in your industry can be a great way to promote your business and help you better serve your clients.

— Lewis Howes

Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.

— John Ruskin

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...

— Lord Acton

“Just because you cannot avoid this tool altogether doesn’t mean you have to cede all authority over its role in your mental…

— Cal Newport

“true authority came from sharing the hard work, not attempting to place oneself above it.”

— John Flanagan