Authority Quotes

2019 Authority quotes by 1321 unique authors

Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free… — Emma Goldman
There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results… — Benjamin Tucker
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody… — Robert Anton Wilson
The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God… — John Calvin
Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been pleased to consign His truth… — John Calvin
One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical… — F. F. Bruce
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do… — Ayn Rand
For those who believe executive branch officials will voluntarily interpret their surveillance authorities with restraint, I believe it is more likely that I will achieve… — Ron Wyden
Merging the ability to conduct surveillance that reveals every aspect of a person's life with the ability to conjure up the legal authority to execute… — Ron Wyden
By learning to yield to the loving authority... of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him… — James Dobson
While all societies make their own imaginaries (institutions, laws, traditions, beliefs and behaviors), autonomous societies are those that their members are aware of this fact,… — Cornelius Castoriadis
Those who would send out thousands of questionnaires asking the unconverted what they would desire most in a worship service should realize that ten thousand… — Paul Washer
As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be… — Hugh Nibley
An intellectual may be defined as a man who speaks with general authority about a subject on which he has no particular competence. — Irving Kristol
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The… — Federico Fellini
When society is made up of men who know no interior solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it is… — Thomas Merton
Andy Harp's RETRIBUTION is a stunner: a blow to the gut and shot of adrenaline. Here is a novel written with authentic authority and bears shocking relevance… — James Rollins
The striking thing is that WHO doesn't really have the authority to do any of this. It can't tell governments what to do. It hires… — Atul Gawande
This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that… — Unknown Author
Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which… — Byron White
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having… — John Jay Hooker
Our claim is that God has revealed Himself by speaking; that this divine (or God-breathed) speech has been written down and preserved in Scripture; and… — John Stott
You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You can exaggerate your… — Kevin DeYoung
Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong. — Ted Nelson
Simply giving employees a sense of agency- a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority - can radically increase how… — Charles Duhigg

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