Authority Quotes

2019 Authority quotes by 1321 unique authors

The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law. — Caspar David Friedrich
Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority. — Prince Charles
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine. — A.J. Ayer
If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse… — Anthony de Mello
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. — Kenneth Burke
The Catholic Church holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded… — Pope Paul VI
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued… — Ken Livingstone
I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. — Susan Cain
Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially… — Savitri Devi
The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old. — Brian Johnson
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. — John Charles Polanyi
We have created islands, small islands of power, but we have not built a bridge between those islands, .. The center and the territories, regional… — Vladimir Putin
We have the authority to take action, ... But responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to… — Janet Reno
We expect the Taiwan authorities publicly to correct the record and unambiguously affirm that the February 27 announcement did not abolish the National Unification Council,… — Joseph Adam Ereli
We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism… — F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
Resistance is a holy right for the Palestinian people to face the Israeli occupation. Nobody should forget that the Palestinian people negotiated for 10 years… — Marwan Barghouti
Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. — Larry Burkett
Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing)… — Larry Burkett
During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under… — Edward Alsworth Ross
All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different. — Yaphet Kotto
Respect authority while questioning it. — Randy Pausch
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit,… — Napoleon Bonaparte
[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost… — Steve Jobs
Even as he would be guilty of falsehood who would, in the name of another person, proffer things that are not committed to him, so… — Thomas Aquinas

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