Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

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 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.

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

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.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Honor is a harder master than the law.

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 cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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 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 you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

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 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.

If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.

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.