Authority Quotes - Page 10

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

Respect authority while questioning it.

Convention is the ruler of all.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

Honor is a harder master than the law.

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.