Authority Quotes · Page 28

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

— Anonymous

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

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

— Ezra Furman

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

— Eric Metaxas

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

— Thomas Hooker

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

— M. COCHET M

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

— Erich Fromm

People who resist authority, who defend the rights of the individual, who try in a period of increasing totalitarianism and centralization to…

— Murray Bookchin

Science ... looks skeptically at all claims to knowledge, old and new. It teaches not blind obedience to those in authority but…

— Carl Sagan

Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of…

— John Tillotson

We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable…

— Janet Yellen

For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge…

— Rio Ferdinand

The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide…

— Alexander Hamilton

“The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and…

— Richard P. Feynman

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture;…

— Rick Perlstein

Under theocracies and other authoritarian regimes, the rulers are the moral authorities. Under genuine democracy some basic values are entrenched in the…

— Mario Bunge

Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded…

— Hannah Arendt

It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

. . . Thirteen governments [of the original states] thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence…

— John Adams

There are those who ask what authority, what theological qualification, the Council intended to give to its teachings, knowing that it avoided…

— Pope Paul VI

TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but…

— Ambrose Bierce

Is he prepared to support, at his own expense, projects and undertakings designed to help the needy? Is he prepared to pay…

— Pope Paul VI

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

— Red Tash

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

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

— Joyce Meyer

“Beware. Those with the least amount of authority exercise it the most often.”

— Peggy Kopman-Owens

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

— Joseph Joubert

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.

— Philip Sidney

“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

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

— Lord Acton

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural…

— John L. Dagg

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

— William A. Dembski

Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty.

— Plutarch

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

— John Flanagan

I am convinced that people are open to the Christian message if it is seasoned with authority and proclaimed as God's own…

— Billy Graham