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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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

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.

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

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

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

It is important to note that Edward Snowden was labeled as a spy not a whistle-blower - even though he exposed the reach of the spy services into the lives of most Americans. More importantly, he was denounced as being part of a generation that unfortunately combined being educated with a distrust of authority.

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.

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.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

It is not difficult to govern. All one has to do is not to offend the noble families.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore establishing the Constitution, will not be a NATIONAL, but a FEDERAL act.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

It may well seem that Plato does suggest techne is the best model for moral knowledge. In other words, it may seem that his goal is to establish an expert or authority in the field of the good-bad, just-unjust.

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

It's difficult for a society to have a healthy discourse on its future when people are afraid to gather to express themselves and authorities won't allow it.

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

It's time for a new Reformation in the Church--to call the Church back to the authority of the Word of God, beginning in Genesis.

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

I've always had a problem with authority. I just can't wear a suit - it would kill me.

I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.