Authority Quotes

2019 Authority quotes by 1321 unique authors

I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think… — Ben Bernanke
I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and… — Chris Crutcher
To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people. — Ahmed Chalabi
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. — David Amram
We want to look at how we would respond because, as hard as we work to prevent terrorist attacks here North America, if we have… — Paul Cellucci
I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given… — Steven Curtis Chapman
By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure… — Diana DeGette
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what… — Gavyn Davies
If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you. — William A. Dembski
There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight… — Klaus Fuchs
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another. — Mahmoud Abbas
I've never been any good with authority. — Rupert Everett
I fight authority and authority always wins. — John Mellencamp
The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they… — Joseph Sobran
The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior… — Carl Rogers
The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in… — Francis Galton
Financial markets ... resent any kind of government interference but they hold a belief deep down that if conditions get really rough the authorities will… — George Soros
America's greatness is due in no small measure to our system of government, in which power and authority are deliberately divided. The separation of powers… — Richard Allen Epstein
People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority. — Linda Hunt
The victory of Hamas is not only based on the corruption of the Palestinian Authority. Hamas has a vision and a program, and this is… — Ismail Haniyeh
I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement. — Jonathan Haidt
Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only… — Trevor Horn
In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been… — Ma Jian
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957. — Vernon Jordan
You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can… — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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