Authority Quotes - Page 19

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something.

Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.

The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would be horrified at how the present court misapplies what they designed.

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid.

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones.

Even before Plato, techne was conceived as knowledge of a determinate field that could be mastered by "the expert". Such a person becomes an authority to whom laypersons should, in their dealings with that field, defer. Techne typically results in a useful result.

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.

It is incumbent upon everyone to aid those daysprings of authority and sources of command who are adorned with the ornamant of equity and justice.