Authority Quotes
2019 quotes by 1321 authors
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Remember: you are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.
— Louise Hay
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight…
— Martin Luther
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I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost.…
— Dante Alighieri
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We [the Government] are here not as masters but as servants, we are not here to glory in power, but to attest our loyalty to…
— Charles Evans Hughes
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A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.
— John Wooden
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If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at…
— Orson Scott Card
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The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [of transmutation],…
— Frederick Soddy
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It is easy to understand why the cat has eclipsed the dog as modern America's favorite pet. People like pets to possess the same qualities…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I saw that everything really was written there before me, and that the doors had only been closed before because I hadn't realized that I…
— Paulo Coelho
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.
— John Charles Polanyi
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I am convinced that this is the only means of advancing science, of clearing the mind from a confused heap of contradictory observations, that do…
— Joshua Reynolds
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A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no…
— Anne Rice
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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During the first seven years, every society tries to condition the mind - and conditioning means nothing but hypnosis: forcing authority, law, tradition, religion, scripture,…
— Rajneesh
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We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.
— Lucretia Mott
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