Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.

A country is in a bad state, which is governed only by laws; because a thousand things occur for which laws cannot provide, and where authority ought to interpose.

Actually I was more of a breaker than a thrower - most of them putters. I broke so many of those that I probably became the world's foremost authority on how to putt without a putter.

Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.

After all, when you're talking about an authority figure oppressing against people, it's the people that hold that authority figure up. If you want to get free of this bondage, then we need to think about ways to free ourselves, rather than looking to the oppressors to free us.

After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.

After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.

All progress in knowledge takes place through the correction of that which has been received on authority.

All prophecy is based on a revelation from God, but always operates at a lower level of authority than that of inspired Scripture.

A lot of nonwhite people in America know what it's like to feel heat from the authorities, but, you know, all sorts of people can start to feel it now if Trump comes in.

Almost always, executive orders are within an authority and always within the purview of Congress to change if they want to legislatively change it.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

Another reform I`m proposing is the passage of legislation named for Detective Michael Davis and Deputy Sheriff Danny Oliver, two law enforcement officers recently killed by a previously deported illegal immigrant. The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly, identified and removed. And they will go fast, believe me. They`re going to go.

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.

As Australians, we see the law as inherently bad. We have a real inherent distaste for authority in our makeup.

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading of the general welfare and commerce clauses of the Constitution has the federal government been allowed to overreach its authority and extend its tendrils into every corner of civil society.

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority.

A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries

As the beauty of the picture depends not on the painter but on the picture itself, what I say must depend on its own intrinsic value and not on the authority of my attainment, nor on the authority of others.

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.

As your organizational authority increases, your organizational IQ decreases.

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

Authority is quite degrading.

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me.

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

Authority does not equal competency.

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.