Authority Quotes - Page 9

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.

If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.

He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

Experience is the highest authority.

Our submission defines our authority

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

Wearing a hat confers undeniable authority over those without one.

In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.