Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

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

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

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 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 no intention of sharing my authority.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.

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.

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 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.

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

I say with my own authority that if you go on questioning without accepting anybody's answer, including mine, by and by you will find that the answer is not found but the question disappears.

I really rebel against authority.

I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

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.

I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.

It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.