Authority Quotes - Page 4

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.

It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Authority is quite degrading.

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.

A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.

The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His will and direction, even when the direction might not have been our personal preference.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

Authority is no source for Truth.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.