Authority Quotes - Page 3

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

The feelings of another person should never be imposed upon us as a law.

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership.... I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone...thought the commander was incompetent, and quietly worked to undermine his authority.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.