Own Authority Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
-
But Adam and Eve thought that it was they who were determining the course they would follow, that they were only exercising their autonomous right…
— Robert L. Reymond
-
We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.
— Bill Bradley
-
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
-
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
-
At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and…
— Orson Pratt
-
If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the…
— John Locke
-
Real leadership is about building people up and empowering them. Many leaders feel that empowering someone else will reduce their own authority. I ask you:…
— Nouman Ali Khan
-
Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power…
— Thomas Jefferson
-
Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.
— Ben Shahn
-
In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but…
— Parker J. Palmer
-
I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to…
— Diana Gabaldon
Who Wrote These Own Authority Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Own Authority Quotes as follows: