Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

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

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

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.

If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him

If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.

If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.

If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.

I have no intention of sharing my authority.

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

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

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

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

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

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

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?

In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file.

In many cases, the authorities can't really prove if the person is in danger or not, because they can't send a person to Afghanistan to investigate each and every case.

In any close society it is more urgent to restrain others than to be free oneself. Hence the tendency for the central authority to absorb and supersede such as are local or delegated.

In Britain the power of authority was weakened. There was much more individual freedom and there was great academic freedom.

In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

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

I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or authority.

In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.

In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.

I really rebel against authority.

In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other.

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

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

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

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

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