Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

One of the beautiful things about writing is that it offers an inner life that's disciplined and at the same time wild. Not in any way servile or submissive. It exists outside of institutional and other forms of authority even when being affected by them. On what almost feels like a cellular level, it's anathema to labeling and enforced divisions.

One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.

One thing about a police state, you can always find the police.

One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works." "It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven.

Our submission defines our authority

Over the pope as expression of the binding claim of ecclesiastical authority, there stands one's own conscience which must be obeyed before all else, even if necessary against the requirement of ecclesiastical authority.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ. A sense of peace will virtually always accompany His will and direction, even when the direction might not have been our personal preference.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.

Part of the reason images of women in positions of authority are marked by their gender is that the very notion of authority is associated with maleness.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Power without authority is tyranny.

Power people are generally threatened by authority people.

Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.

Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority.

Producers don't really have any authority because you are paid by the artist, and if they choose to ignore you, they can. Your power only hangs by the tiniest thread. If you pull it too hard it will snap.

Priesthood power blesses all of us. Priesthood keys direct women as well as men, and priesthood ordinances and priesthood authority pertain to women as well as men.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Quotations have always been supremely effective rhetorical devices, instruments of one-upmanship, ways of supporting any position under the sun with borrowed or stolen authority.

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do.

Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.

Respect authority while questioning it.

Revive the value of seasoned, stoical masculinity in education. Men in authority are now a threatened minority. Again, and in defense of the pack that piled on Klein, America’s progressive schools are overrun by ineffectual females.

Searching for money, what are you really searching? You are searching power, you are searching strength. Searching for prestige, political authority, what are you searching? You are searching power, strength - and strength is all the time available just by the corner. You are searching in wrong places.

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

Since a democratic society repudiates the principle of external authority, it must find a substitute in voluntary disposition and interest; these can be created only by education.

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.