Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

We don't name God; God reveals His name to us. We don't have the right to exercise authority over God. God copyrights, He trademarks, He patents His name.

We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.

We know that Seattle is mentioned frequently ... a computer was found in Afghanistan showing pictures of Seattle-area landmarks. So we are in constant contact with the FBI and with other federal authorities.

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

We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.

What Obama did wrong with executive power is he tried to change the law. He tried to ignore the law. And under the Constitution, Article I, all legislative authority is vested in Congress.

What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented.

What you allow you encourage.

We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years?

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.

When authority is backed up by an immediate physical compulsion, what we are dealing with is not authority proper (i.e. symbolic authority), but simply an agency of brute force.

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

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.

When I played, I received racial abuse but I was just one of a few black players and we weren't backed up by the authorities.

When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.

When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.

When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.

When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

When people do not dread authorities, then a greater dread descends.

When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.

When you delegate tasks, you create followers. When you delegate authority, you create leaders.

When will talkers refrain from evil speaking? When listeners refrain from evil hearing. At present there are many so credulous of evil, they will receive suspicions and impressions against persons whom they don't know, from a person whom they do know--an authority good for nothing.

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim.

Whether the proposed constitution is approved or rejected . . . it is a process and a text largely crafted and imposed by U.S. occupation authorities and their Iraqi dependents, and thus lacking in legal or political legitimacy.

With deregulation, one sector of the economy after another is "liberated" to capital's unmonitored authority. The very notion that there is a public interest is contested.

With "marriage," the word gets applied to same-sex marriages by proponents and opponents alike. That means the word itself is changing, and we reflect this change. But because of the idea that the dictionary is the objective voice of authority over culture and knowledge, it reads like approval. It's not a helpful way of looking at lexicography.

You are your own highest authority. Do not place your source of authority outside of you. Go within to see if the truth you've found is in harmony with the truth you find in your heart.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity - frowned on by the authorities - and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher.

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life.  Just be you, then wait.

You could become internationally famous - you're Gemini, and according to antique authority have a literary talent, which of course your letters prove.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

You have authority over every storm you can sleep in