Authority Quotes

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The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The… — Noah Webster
Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which… — Alfred Noyes
Impeachment appears six times in the U.S. Constitution. The Founders weren't concerned with anything more than with impeachment because they had lived under King George… — Ramsey Clark
One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to… — Elmer Davis
The idea of UFOs is becoming a very prevalent phenomenon in people's consciousness. People believe in them. What does this mean? It means that people… — Brad Steiger
But when we reduce sex to a function, we also invoke the idea of dysfunction. We are no longer talking about the art of sex;… — Esther Perel
While it's true that some writers, when taking on love and war, find the task too big, or only succeed in one but not the… — Meg Wolitzer
The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an… — Bertrand Russell
Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues. — Gary Zukav
The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a… — Timothy Leary
The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority. — Neil Postman
Historically, America has answered to a higher authority. — Lee Greenwood
Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my… — Richard Bach
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. — Carl Rogers
The discipline in your life should be one determined by your own desires and your own needs, not put upon you by society or authority. — Bertrand Russell
It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority. — K.P. Yohannan
Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority,… — Alfie Kohn
There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers. — Bernard Law Montgomery
Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction. — Thomas Jefferson
This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people. — Unknown Author
..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its members,… — Samuel Chadwick
Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized in… — Simone Weil
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. — Stephen Covey
I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,… — Samuel Johnson

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