Authority Quotes · Page 29

I've studied kings, so I'm very aware of the feet of clay of authority.

— David Starkey

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of…

— Lee Haney

We need a regime change in this country… If we launch a pre-emptive strike on Iraq we lose all moral authority.

— Jesse Jackson

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

— Linus Torvalds

Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong.

— Ted Nelson

The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.

— John Bevere

No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed…

— Anthony Trollope

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Interpretation of the Laws of Nature in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Moral Philosophy. The Authority of writers,…

— Thomas Hobbes

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the…

— Virgil

If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell…

— Derek R. Audette

If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out…

— Randy Lerner

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change…

— Deepak Chopra

The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate commerce, and the ENCRYPT Act sends a clear message that the complicated…

— Ted Lieu

The following of authority is the denial of intelligence. [It] may help us temporarily to cover up our difficulties and problems; but…

— Anonymous

“I realized clearly, perhaps for the first time, what strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world…

— Anonymous

“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time,…

— Oscar Wilde

The most ridiculous were those who, on their own authority, made themselves the judges and justices of the tribe. They seemed never…

— Paul Valery

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no…

— Ayn Rand

The unprecedented transparency of our time is a making change by the day. Our era, with transparency and the spread of information,…

— James M Strock

Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with…

— Joe McNally

Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope of their father. As long as they’re under the authority…

— Doug Phillips

Every government has signed up to a voluntary legal commitment under at least one of the international covenants and conventions based on…

— Mary Robinson

“if a person of authority talks only to those who agree with him he soon finds himself out of authority. Luke”

— Walter Jon Williams

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

— Albert Mohler

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

— Mark Twain

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

— Cornelius Cardew

“It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.”

— C.J. Langenhoven

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

— Chris Hayes

The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.

— Ted Cruz

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

— James MacGregor Burns

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

— Alan Thicke

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.

— James Kelman

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

— Malcolm Forbes

“-commanders have just as much authority as you let them have. The more you obey them, the more power they have over…

— Orsen Card

“Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace”

— Aaron Sorkin

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

— Gerry Spence

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they…

— Cyprian

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

— Kelley Armstrong