Authority Quotes
2019 quotes by 1321 authors
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The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion…
— George Bancroft
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The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.
— David Baker
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We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
— Mahmoud Abbas
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
— Jesus Christ
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We support too big to fail. We want the government to be able to take down a big bank like JP Morgan and it could…
— Jamie Dimon
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Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority,…
— Jon Meacham
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Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.
— Thomas Frank
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I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant…
— Gail Simmons
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You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the…
— Judd Gregg
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My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
— Chris Hayes
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Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.
— Jill Abramson
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Oprah is a wealthy person, pack leader of the human world. So many see her as the dominant one, as the authority figure. The way…
— Cesar Millan
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I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I…
— Sean Brady
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I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences…
— Sean Brady
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The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in…
— Sean Brady
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A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal…
— Gary Hamel
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How does a woman in authority convey that authority? Is it possible for a woman to rule without sounding shrill? Is it possible for a…
— Stacy Schiff
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I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to…
— Miroslav Volf
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It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a…
— Lysander Spooner
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