Authority Quotes - Page 15

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

Obedience to authority saves many skins

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

I wouldn't want to be anyone to usurp the authority of the WWE.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

The word "concluded" is a trick word. It's designed to attach authority and ontological certitude to whatever follows, when it's just another way of stating what somebody thinks.

I've never been any good with authority.

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to run your life. And the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.

[Management] has authority only as long as it performs.

I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.

I know of few men over 50 that seem to me entirely human, virtually none who has long exercised authority.