Authority Quotes · Page 34

The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

— A.J. Ayer

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.

— Maureen Dowd

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

— Susannah Cahalan

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

— Bill Ferguson

The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

— Harry S. Truman

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 have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of…

— Alexander Herzen

Do not look at your weakness or your small size; look at the Lord and His greatness that He will demonstrate through…

— Rick Joyner

We have the authority to take action, ... But responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when…

— Janet Reno

For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all…

— Jonathan Mayhew

When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in…

— Stanley Milgram

John Frame's magnificent work on the Christian life fully endorses the authority of Scripture and practically addresses the need to consider the…

— Richard L. Pratt, Jr

A baby, a real live baby was the craziest thing a fan has sent. Someone left a baby on our front doorstep…

— Dolly Parton

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living…

— John Calvin

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery. Love, and don't be caught in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers…

— Frank Pittman

I've always had a problem with authority since I was a little kid. Like when the teachers would tell us to do…

— Jon Fitch

“Ask why you can’t lift an innocent finger without permission, and your lack of the simplest reasoning power baffles them. One must…

— Rose Wilder Lane

Mary has the authority over the angels and the blessed in heaven. As a reward for her great humility, God gave her…

— Louis de Montfort

I don't think the Port Authority does a good enough job in anything that they do, quite honestly, but clearly in the…

— Anonymous

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance…

— Kate Millett

The constitution regulates our stewardship; the constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But…

— William H. Seward

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

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

— Randall Munroe

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

— William Shakespeare

There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.

— Bernard Law Montgomery

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

— Samuel R. Delany

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

— Prince Charles

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

— Ray Palla

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

— Robert Spencer

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

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

— Tacitus

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

— Stephen Mallinder

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

— Billy Graham

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

— John Cusack