Authority Quotes

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Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice -… — Jan Hus
Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person… — Orhan Pamuk
The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of… — Safak Pavey
I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks. — Sebastian Thrun
What is missed when people talk about books is the moment of grace when the reader creates the book, lends it the authority of their… — Richard Flanagan
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. — Brendan Behan
He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded… — Terence
Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and… — Allen Boyd
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom. — Robert Hall
The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or… — John Witherspoon
Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have… — William Temple
Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. — Matthew Green
There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for… — Thomas Foran
The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles,… — John Acton
I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty,… — Henry A. Wise
We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate. — William Hedgcock Webster
Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or… — Don Bluth
Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was… — Ethan A. Hitchcock
I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I… — Abu Bakr
We need to stop the erosion of parental authority. — Sonny Landham

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