Authority Quotes - Page 11

I've always had trouble with authority.

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Power without authority is tyranny.

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

Zero Mostel wasn't afraid of authority in any form, and that's the part that influenced me the most.

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men.

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...

[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.

The highest duty is to respect authority.

The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

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 to see me as I am.

In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.