Authority Quotes · Page 25

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to…

— Raymond Chandler

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

— George Mason

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

— Oscar Wilde

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

— Oscar Wilde

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

— Patrick Lencioni

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere

— Ronald Reagan

I would describe my driving style as calm authority, but my wife would call it demented. In my defence I've got a…

— Sean Lock

My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European…

— Nicola Sturgeon

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

— Ambrose Bierce

The secretary actually already has a good deal of authority within the confines of the Affordable Care Act. Step one really is…

— Kathleen Sebelius

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny…

— Eric Idle

It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative…

— James Madison

Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this…

— Frans de Waal

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that…

— Terence

There are some whose only reason for inciting war is to use it as a means to exercise their tyranny over their…

— Desiderius Erasmus

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the…

— Emma Goldman

Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of…

— Peter Drucker

The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few…

— Ed Crane

Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader…

— Robert K. Greenleaf

Our role as artist is more controversial now because there are those, claiming the absolute authority of religion, who detest much of…

— Barbra Streisand

It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they…

— H. L. Mencken

Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information;…

— Frank P. Ramsey

“Believers infiltrate the enemy’s territory with knowledge and power.”

— Sherry K. White

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders

— John Culberson

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

— Moon Unit Zappa

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

— Stephen Graham

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

— John Lancaster Spalding

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

— Thomas Paine

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

— Edward Gibbon

Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.

— Katharina Zell

To have power is to have authority, to have authority is to have a voice, use it for the right reasons, and…

— Noel Casillas

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

— Molly Ivins

When u enter a room,hold your head up high and walk in like you own the place... No one will question your…

— Jade Williams

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

— Anonymous

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

— Simon Sinek

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

— Chester Barnard

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

— Vince Lombardi

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in…

— Joshua