Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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 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 cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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 delegate authority, you will build leaders.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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 no intention of sharing my authority.

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

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

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

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