Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

If a prosecutor in The Hague decides that the U.S. has not followed through effectively on an investigation - is unwilling or unable to carry it through - then that person, that prosecutor, in an unreviewable fashion gets to second-guess the United States? That is unacceptable. That is an assertion of authority over and above the U.S. Constitution.

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

If certain facilities, local facilities have to be arranged, the local authorities have to come. And that makes the Indian system slow moving, Indian administrative system slow moving.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

If I was an aspirant litterateur, I was also an aspirant anarchist. I have disliked Authority always, though sometimes seduced by its resplendence.

If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.

If we get our salvation, we shall have to pass by him [Joseph Smith]; if we enter our glory, it will be through the authority he has received. We cannot get around him

If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.

If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.

I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

I have no intention of sharing my authority.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show', I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?

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.

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

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

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

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

I really rebel against authority.

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