Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense

Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.” “Sir?” “It seems that you have managed to retain this even though you are authority.” “Sir?” “That’s practically zen.

Comrade Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

Convention is the ruler of all.

Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.

Could you please explain to me exactly what the staff is that you carry?" Cronus proudly held the symbol of his power and authority aloft. "It is the scepter that denotes my control of the Physical Realms. All who defy me should look on it and tremble." "Oh, I see! Do you know, I thought it was a giant toothpick, or perhaps something you shoved into other parts of you anatomy. I never realized it represented your supposed right to rule," said Her Vampiric Majesty lightly.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

Discretion, like the hole in a doughnut, does not exist except as an area left open by a surrounding belt of restriction. It is therefore a relative concept. It always makes sense to ask, "Discretion under which standards?" or "Discretion as to which authority?

Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Dodge v. Ford still stands for the legal principal that managers and directors have a legal duty to put the shareholders' interests above all others and no legal authority to serve any other interests - what has come to be known as "the best interests of the corporation" principal.

Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

Even before Plato, techne was conceived as knowledge of a determinate field that could be mastered by "the expert". Such a person becomes an authority to whom laypersons should, in their dealings with that field, defer. Techne typically results in a useful result.

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.

Even when you err, it is a thousand times better to err out of conviction than to hide your true opinion to respect some authority.

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

Everywhere that the struggle for national freedom has triumphed, once the authorities agreed, there were military coups d'etat that overthrew their leaders. That is the result time and time again.

Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Experience is the highest authority.

Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership.... I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone...thought the commander was incompetent, and quietly worked to undermine his authority.

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders

Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes 's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.

Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil.

For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

For the educated, the authority of science rested on the strictness of its methods; for the mass, it rested on the powers of explanation.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this.

Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.