Authority Quotes · Page 40

“Moral authority is earned, not given. This is why formal authorities are threatened by moral authorities without position.”

— Richie Norton

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

— Martina Navratilova

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

— Margaret Mead

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

— Stanley Milgram

“The authority that God has given you over Satan is ample, wide-ranging, thorough, all embracing”

— Pedro Okoro

“The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.”

— Bryant McGill

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority.

— Sophocles

You can't have some phantom guy that's got all the authority, that's booking all the matches. It takes that stretch of believability…

— Arn Anderson

Almost all Europe, for many centuries, was inundated with blood, which was shed at the direct instigation or with the full approval…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases…

— William Penn

Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for…

— Joichi Ito

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which…

— Catherine Crowe

A strong new presence in poetry . . . Kei Miller's is a voice we will hear much more of, for it…

— Lorna Goodison

History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but…

— Robert Todd Carroll

Basically, art should remain something that is complex, that has many layers, so there's always a possibility to reconsider things and have…

— Camille Henrot

“So long as human beings can gain sufficient co-operation from some to enable them to dominate others, they will use the forms…

— Anonymous

“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of…

— Walter Lippmann

“authority  i in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 j Go therefore and  k make disciples of  l all nations,  j baptizing them  m in [2]…

— Anonymous

I think the desire to be a journalist started post-911. I'm Syrian American. I speak fluent Arabic. I'd come back to the…

— Arwa Damon

I have met thousands and thousands of pro-choice men and women. I have never met anyone who is pro-abortion. Being pro-choice is…

— Hillary Clinton

Much of the blame for the situation lies with the states themselves. They haven't been able to pass decent laws. For decades,…

— Wolfgang Kubicki

Are there any military actions that the president of the United States may not order on his own authority? If so, what…

— Andrew Bacevich

I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of teenagers are less real or less important than those…

— John Green

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

— William Penn

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

— Hans Denck

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can…

— Jackie Robinson

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

— Homer

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

— Benjamin Franklin

“those who will defend authority against rebellion must not themselves rebel.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

— Meryl Streep

When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.

— Criss Jami

Past tense offers authority, distance, and present tense offers emotional immediacy.

— Tim Winton

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

— Ari Melber

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art…

— Oscar Wilde

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

— Virginia Postrel

I find the growing intervention by the football authorities in strictly footballing matters a rather worrying trend.

— Kenny Cunningham

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

— Socrates

“If you accept any position of authority you have to know when to break or circumvent a rule. It’s the knowing when…

— Madeleine L'Engle