Authority Quotes · Page 32

“No one needs to give you permission to be great. You hold that authority.”

— Kevin Abdulrahman

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

— Cyprian

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

— Anonymous

“One must require of each what each is able to give. Authority rests first of all upon reason.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite

— Michael O'Leary

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

— Kelley Armstrong

“i tried running away from my destiny, but it kept hunting me, until i realize that, generations depends on what i carry…

— Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

— Ambrose Bierce

In Northern Estonia, the Soviet authorities didn't have a recipe on how to fight against the popularity of Finnish TV. Audiences didn't…

— Jaak Kilmi

In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is…

— Plato

People ask what gives me the authority to give advice? I say, First of all, I don't give advice. Dr Phil gives…

— Mr. T

There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority…

— Karen Nussbaum

We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration…

— F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead

The Palestinian Authority cannot hold the stick at both ends: to incite violence, to participate in it, and to tell the world…

— Ehud Barak

There's something structurally integrated with foreign coverage. Reporters often default to thinking of their government as the sort of ultimate authority.

— Masha Gessen

Every actor strives to be in the moment, and when you're on a horse, you constantly have to communicate with it and…

— Alexander Dreymon

During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into…

— Simone Weil

It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how…

— Learned Hand

Classic was Jimmy Savile’s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savile’s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we…

— Daniel Finkelstein

It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it…

— Samuel Johnson

Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of…

— Charles de Gaulle

Use gentle methods to get whatever good you can from priests and monks who are slaves, as well as from merchants and…

— Vincent de Paul

From 1789, perhaps even before that, it had been the willingness of politicians to exploit either the threat or the fact of…

— Simon Schama

The people who steal cars, there's somebody there who is the master, who orders the cars, or just takes a car when…

— Thabo Mbeki

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

— Michael Craig-Martin

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

— Ernest Hemingway

This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people.

— Henry Seymour Conway

In Kashmir, you need utmost cooperation between all centres of authority.

— Rajiv Gandhi

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

— Walter Jon Williams

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Anthony Trollope

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

— Cornelius Cardew

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

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

— Alan Thicke

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

— James MacGregor Burns

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

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

— Aaron Sorkin