Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

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

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 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.

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

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

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 the highest authority.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

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.

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

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

Fish are not the best authority on water.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.

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

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

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

Hamas' leadership needs new blood. I will continue to serve my people. But the presidency of the Palestinian Autonomous Authority is not a free, sovereign position - it is an office that is confined by the occupation. That's why this position is not interesting for Hamas.

Here, every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their defense, not for offense.

He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity.

I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!

His voice carried authority the way Ben & Jerry's carries calories.

I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

I can see how the authorities could not like Todd [ Willingham], because he's not a person who is going to give you respect if you don't deserve it just because you say something.

His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

Honor is a harder master than the law.

How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

I could not accept that organizational interpretations, based on shifting human reasoning, could ever be made equal in authority to the actual statements found in God's unchangeable Word.

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

I don't know how to run your life. I don't know how to run your life. I don't have the authority to run your life. And the Constitution doesn't permit me to run your life.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.

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

I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.

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.