Authority Quotes

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Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because… — Will Self
I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA. — Gary Vaynerchuk
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function. — Edmund Burke
RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable… — Ambrose Bierce
I should favour anything that would increase the present enormous authority of women and their creative action in their own homes. The average woman...is a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that… — Lebbeus Woods
If there is a single trait in our character that has historically set us apart from other nations, it is our determination to limit the… — Billy Bragg
To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience to a central… — Robert Graves
I taught Sunday School for two years. And I got fired. I abused my authority. I used to teach class like this, "OK, if one… — Margaret Cho
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection… — Christopher Dawson
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by… — Bertrand Russell
Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual… — Arthur Koestler
Geneva is a city where the living conditions and hospitality provided by both the population and authorities of Geneva - at all levels - are… — Margaret Chan
The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state's power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may… — Jacob Burckhardt
We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of hanky… — Gertrude Bell
The American Medical Association says the humane way is to let people starve and thirst to death. If you did that to an animal, youd… — Jack Kevorkian
In The Art and Aesthetics of Boxing, David Scott addresses the daunting task of establishing a groundwork for the aesthetics of boxing-and succeeds with consummate… — Robert Anasi
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law… — Al Capone
By our uncritical pursuit of relevance we have actually courted irrelevance; by our breathless chase after relevance without a matching committment to faithfulness, we have… — Os Guinness
What kind of authority can there be for an 'Apostle' who, unlike the other Apostles, had never been prepared for the Apostolic office in Jesus'… — Ferdinand Christian Baur
Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. — Gustav Heinemann
A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so… — Stanley Milgram
When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group. The… — Stanley Milgram
To be a son or daughter of God also means you are royalty. This is the greatest of privileges, but it is also an awesome… — Heidi Baker
Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by… — Dava Sobel

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