Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

Authority is quite degrading.

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

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

Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Authority does not equal competency.

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

Being yielded to God's authority keeps us pliable and open-minded to a possible change of plans.

Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!

But the wisdom and authority of the legislator are seldom victorious in a contest with the vigilant dexterity of private interest.

Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power and authority aloft. "It is the scepter that denotes my control of the Physical Realms. All who defy me should look on it and tremble." "Oh, I see! Do you know, I thought it was a giant toothpick, or perhaps something you shoved into other parts of you anatomy. I never realized it represented your supposed right to rule," said Her Vampiric Majesty lightly.

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.

Convention is the ruler of all.

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

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

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

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

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

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

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.

Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

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

Even before Plato, techne was conceived as knowledge of a determinate field that could be mastered by "the expert". Such a person becomes an authority to whom laypersons should, in their dealings with that field, defer. Techne typically results in a useful result.

Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.

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

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.