Authority Quotes · Page 30

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

— Kim Young-sam

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

— Daniel Ellsberg

God speaks with authority on every subject including marriage and His advice trumps Oprah's every time.

— Kirk Cameron

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

— Martha Beck

The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Gimme eat, I said,” he ordered loudly in harsh tones that rumbled ominously through the silent tent like claps of distant thunder.”

— Joseph Heller

Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion.

— Gautama Buddha

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

— Zebulon Pike

For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a…

— Harbhajan Singh

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and…

— Martha Stout

The crisis of the church is not at its deepest level a crisis of authority, or a crisis of dogmatic theology. It…

— James K. Baxter

I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the…

— Ingrid Betancourt

The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which…

— Sigmund Freud

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians,…

— Storm Jameson

Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become…

— Jane Jacobs

In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause.…

— Thomas Aquinas

In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves…

— Jonathan Gottschall

Do not be angry with people who are weak. That is the mark of a coward. There are plenty of things to…

— Josei Toda

People call me for interviews on censorship type topics all the time, like that Gannette interview.I don't hold myself out to be…

— Frank Zappa

Many of those on the right distrust the Fed and want to eliminate its power in the belief that the private economy,…

— Gerald Epstein

There are three means of believing--by inspiration, by reason, and by custom. Christianity, which is the only rational institution, does yet admit…

— Blaise Pascal

The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and…

— Steven Pinker

Statistics compiled by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority highlight how successfully we have reduced fuel consumption. A few years ago, the…

— Norbert Reithofer

As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions…

— Mickey Edwards

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

— Emma Goldman

I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.

— Benjamin Wittes

[W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.

— Alexander Hamilton

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

— Keith Richards

“Nobody on Earth can tell you how you should live your life. Nobody with any real authority anyway.”

— Dan Pearce

I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting my face and making my…

— Grace Jones

In the end, God is the God of all authorities. He's the highest authority and He loves you and He can totally…

— Lacey Sturm

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

— Isaac Watts

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

— Austin O'Malley

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

— Mark Durie

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

— Alan Tudyk

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

— Vernon Jordan

“Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

— Marie de France

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

— Larry Burkett