Authority Quote by Gustav Heinemann Download Open image “Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.” — Gustav Heinemann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Faces Justify Tradition
“In discussing tradition, we are not discussing arbitrary rules and conventions. We are discussing answers that have been discovered to enduring questions. These” — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters-first and foremost-how they behave. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want. — William P. Young Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too. — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Insecurity and resignation mingle with the hope for a better order. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days… — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
I have left the federal government and the German Bundestag; I have resigned from all my positions in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
I appeal to the responsibility of the blocs and the major powers, not to seek security in the arms race, but rather in a… — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails… — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even… — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
The time has come - and must come - for multilateral conversations about a secure peace in all of Europe. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today's reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda. — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model… — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image