Authority Quotes · Page 43

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

— John Ortberg

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

— A.J. Ayer

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm…

— Nikki Sixx

“Often it takes outer authority to send us on the path to our own inner authority.”

— Richard Rohr

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

— Walter Benjamin

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

— Mike Lofgren

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

— Alberto Manguel

The idea of authority, and therefore the respect for authority, is an anti-Semitic notion. It is in Catholicism, in Christianity, in the…

— Kadmi Cohen

It's a different world because of the Internet and bloggers. Now, every editor is concerned about speed because every minute counts. Speed…

— Robert Hilburn

The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their…

— Josh Hawley

To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists…

— John Holdren

He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested…

— Henry David Thoreau

Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and…

— Sam Graves

Normative ethics, pursued as a free, systematic, and critical attempt to find moral truth, regardless of religious and other authorities, is a…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be…

— George Q. Cannon

There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers.…

— Dario Fo

Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow,…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The primary truth that any government will be able to stand on is that God is King, not man. The Lord created…

— Rick Joyner

I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have…

— William J. Clinton

No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tawny," I barked. My voice held the authority of a drill sergeant. She jumped. "I am NOT making out with you until…

— Richelle Mead

“Time means a lot to me, paperwork wastes it, and I have always been a firm believer in my right to do…

— Roger Zelazny

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.

— David Weber

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our…

— Sam Keen

When you literally overturn the teaching of Scripture to empower people who want power, you have given up biblical authority.

— John MacArthur

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

— John Charles Polanyi

“Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.”

— Jurgen Appelo

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

— Rand Paul

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

— David Foster Wallace

I don't believe there is any constitutional or statutory authority for any president to shut down Mississippi's economy.

— Tate Reeves

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

— Calvin Coolidge

Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way

— Ronald Reagan

Knowing when to use your authority is an important as knowing how to use it.

— Varsha Sharma

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

— Lisa Yuskavage

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.

— T.F. Hodge

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

— Roy Moore

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

— Zygmunt Bauman