Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.

The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.

The word "concluded" is a trick word. It's designed to attach authority and ontological certitude to whatever follows, when it's just another way of stating what somebody thinks.

The unprecedented transparency of our time is a making change by the day. Our era, with transparency and the spread of information, is decentralizing authority and power at a breakneck pace. Those who understand this can break away. Those who attempt to hold back may well be trampled.

The verdict is still out on my life, the judge having not yet instructed the jury, both of whom are me.

The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism. ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national.

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.

They [the authorities] will act aggressively against anyone who has known me. That keeps me up at night.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.

This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles.

This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.

This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.

THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.

Those whose conscience demands that they defy authority in some ways that involve great consequences must be willing to accept some penalty.

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.

Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

To avoid the necessity of a permanent debt and its inevitable consequences, I have advocated and endeavored to carry into effect the policy of confining the appropriations for the public service to such objects only as are clearly with the constitutional authority of the Federal Government.

To admit authorities, however heavily furred and gowned, into our libraries and let them tell us how to read, what to read, what value to place upon what we read, is to destroy the spirit of freedom which is the breath of those sanctuaries.

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

Trade wars arent started by countries appealing to respected, independent trade authorities. Rather, trade wars begin when one country decides to violate international trade rules to undercut another countrys industries.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.

To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete... with Dada I also have in common a certain mistrust towards power. We don't like authority, we don't like power.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

"True expertise is the most potent form of authority.

True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.

True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.

... truth ... carries authority with it; while falsehood and lies skulk under a load of words, without having the power of persuasion; the more they attempt to show themselves, the more they are entangled.

Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

Unless Hamas recognizes Israel's right to exist and renounces terror, the Palestinian Authority should receive no direct U.S. assistance.

Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to understand, let alone to accept, His lordship.

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

Wearing a hat confers undeniable authority over those without one.

We can expect the climate crisis industry to grow increasingly shrill, and increasingly hostile toward anyone who questions their authority.

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted.