Authority Quotes · Page 27

To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction…

— Pentti Linkola

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.

— Patrick O'Brian

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.

— John Wycliffe

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

— L. Tom Perry

“When Jesus tells us to give all we have...we don't have authority to decline. We are not our own; we have no…

— Chris Tiegreen

Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach.

— Donald Rumsfeld

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

— Neil Postman

In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.

— Richard Hamming

My job is to enforce the laws as passed by whom? Congress. They give me my authority. That's the jurisdictional responsibilities that…

— Scott Pruitt

I say I'm not a control freak and I don't like to be in charge. But on the other hand, I really…

— Maura Tierney

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes…

— John McDonnell

For as long as I can remember, I've been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and…

— Amber Heard

All behavior involves conscious or unconscious selection of particular actions out of all those which are physically possible to the actor and…

— Anonymous

The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man…

— Lysander Spooner

Power, like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and…

— Ralph Steadman

Some people feel like you need to have a very specialized understanding of music to have the authority to talk about it.…

— Henry Jackman

...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe…

— Thomas Aquinas

The word of God is definitely above culture, in terms of what or who should have authority in our lives. However, we…

— Steve Scott

We are moving away from the old idea of leadership -- leadership has less to do (now) with heroism. We don't look…

— Walter Truett Anderson

My assessment of Julian Assange is a professional one, really, of what he's managed to achieve, and the idea that he came…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them." "They do. You just can't see…

— Catherynne M. Valente

I would like to see ... an entirely different procedure which is that we vote on the budget and decide how much…

— Millicent Fenwick

As I've gotten older, I've felt I have more authority on that subject. I think the conversation needs to be reframed. What…

— Meghan Daum

The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

— Prince Charles

The Nobel Prize confers on an individual an authority which in economics no man ought to possess.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“If the force of arms is considered the only means of authority, it is not an auspicious instrument.”

— Lao Tzu

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

— Thomas Huxley

The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every…

— Erich Fromm

There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims.

— Robert Spencer

“Give little people a little power, and it goes straight to their ugly, little heads. -Foot talks about authority”

— Ray Palla

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

— Tacitus

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in…

— John Cusack

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

— David Baker

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

— Lord Acton

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

— Billy Graham

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

— Stephen Mallinder

No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest.

— Joyce Cary

We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

— Yitzhak Rabin

I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting…

— John Lennon