Authority Quotes - Page 16

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

What you allow you encourage.

All authority comes from the people.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.

One of the things I love about the Bible is that it's page-by-page proof that God is not just a "broad strokes" kind of creator; God is in the details. So much so that we're told nothing is hidden from him. He sees everything; he's the beginning and the end. There's no greater authority on your life than the one who gave you your life.

Authority is conferred by position, not character.

He who hears this name [God] from a Jew must inform the authorities, or else throw sow dung at him when he sees him and chase him away.

from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

Donald Trump is writing a different theme, which is it's midnight in America and that things are bad, and they're bleak, and they're gloomy and they're doomy, and the only thing that is going to save you is someone with the authority and power of somebody like me.

... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion; the more they attempt to show themselves, the more they are entangled.

I really rebel against authority.

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving.

Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

I have an authority problem.

When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends.