Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.

Obedience is an emblem of our faith in the wisdom and power of the highest authority, even God.

Obedience to authority saves many skins

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

One of the beautiful things about writing is that it offers an inner life that's disciplined and at the same time wild. Not in any way servile or submissive. It exists outside of institutional and other forms of authority even when being affected by them. On what almost feels like a cellular level, it's anathema to labeling and enforced divisions.

One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.

One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.

One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.

Our submission defines our authority

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one's own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.

Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works." "It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.

Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His will and direction, even when the direction might not have been our personal preference.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

Power without authority is tyranny.

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men.

Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.