Authority Quotes

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The child, in fact, once he feels sure of himself, will no longer seek the approval of authority after every step. — Maria Montessori
No totalitarian authority nor authoritarian state can tolerate those who have an absolute by which to judge that state and its actions. The Christians had… — Francis Schaeffer
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who… — Christopher Columbus
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every… — H. L. Mencken
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the… — Unknown Author
A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules. — Vivek Wadhwa
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to… — Sibel Edmonds
I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument… — Kofi Annan
Perhaps more to the point for TBTF (Too Big To Fail bank), if a SIFI (Systemically Important Financial Institution) does fail I have little doubt… — Unknown Author
I am myself persuaded, on the basis of extensive study of the historical evidence, that... the severity of each of the contractions - 1920-21, 1929-33,… — Milton Friedman
Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority. — William J. Clinton
Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow — Henry Paulson
Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon… — Nicholas Murray Butler
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures… — Robert Southey
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is… — Philip Sidney
Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete;… — Strobe Talbott
The man who occupies the first place in an undemocratic state can give himself any award that takes his fancy, but it does not increase… — Dmitri Volkogonov
My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period. — Sue Monk Kidd
But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in… — Raymond Cattell
There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has the knowledge or… — Wilhelm Reich
We shall no longer hang on to the tails of public opinion or to a non- existent authority on matters utterly unknown and strange. We… — Wilhelm Reich
Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree… — Aleister Crowley
The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to… — Andrew Jackson
I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I… — James Ellroy
There are two things over which you have complete dominion, authority, and control – your mind and your mouth. — Molefi Kete Asante

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