Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.

There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims.

There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.

These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism.

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

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 score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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