Authority Quotes - Page 5

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority

Kim Jong Un is an unreasonable leader and a very dangerous person. Yet he is the person who has effective control over North Korea, and he is the person who has the authority to denuclearize North Korea.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

Authority is not a quality one person 'has,' in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.