Authority Quotes

2019 Authority quotes by 1321 unique authors

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet. — Keith Richards
In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. — Tom Robbins
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those… — John Roberts
You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible.… — Donald Rumsfeld
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation… — Mitt Romney
Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama… — Mitt Romney
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A bold reform agenda is our moral obligation. If we make the case effectively and win this November, then we will have the moral authority… — Paul Ryan
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism,… — Jonathan Sacks
Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken by human rights.… — Jonathan Sacks
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect. — Tupac Shakur
We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave. — Michael Shermer
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority. — Hu Shih
Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any… — Ignazio Silone
Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates. — Simon Sinek
I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen! — Nikki Sixx
Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give… — Tony Snow
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. — Thomas Sowell
The rescue of a person, who is assaulted, or restrained of his liberty, without authority of law, is not only morally, but legally, a meritorious… — Lysander Spooner
If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a… — Lysander Spooner
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute… — Lysander Spooner
If I have a song that I feel is really one of my best songs, I like it to have a formal studio recording because… — Bruce Springsteen
You can't tell a woman who is called by God to teach that she cannot teach the Word of God... So I think the distinction… — Charles Stanley

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