Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

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

The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.

The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

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.

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately

The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spending the money. He doesn't have the authority to spend the money. He doesn't spend $1 of the money.

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

The Parliament in Canada and the Congress in Washington do not have the authority to revoke the commandments of God, or to modify or amend them in any way.

The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying.

The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.

The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.

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

There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

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

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.

The unprecedented transparency of our time is a making change by the day. Our era, with transparency and the spread of information, is decentralizing authority and power at a breakneck pace. Those who understand this can break away. Those who attempt to hold back may well be trampled.

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.