Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

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.

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.

The alternative to doubt is authority, against which science had fought for centuries.

Tempered intuition is more than beneficial. It's usually critical to resolving gray area problems. In other words, in the end, these problems are resolved by someone in a position of authority saying this is what I think we should do and will do to address this problem.

The accretion of dangerous power does not come in a day. It does come, however slowly, from the generative force of unchecked disregard of the restrictions that fence in even the most disinterested assertion of authority.

The Anarchists never have claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow authority.

The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good newspapers are in ruins.

The authorities in the United States confiscated private gold holdings in the Depression of the 1930's. They may seek to do so again in the Depression of the 1990's.

The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

The authority of reason is far more imperious than that of a master; for he who disobeys the one is unhappy, but he who disobeys the other is a fool.

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

The Constitution's framers intended to restrict central authority to the few areas that could not be handled by states. The drafters would be horrified at how the present court misapplies what they designed.

The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.

The [classical] liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people -- he is not an egalitarian -- but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.

The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.

The courage of federal Judge Frank Johnson is well-known.He was the one that gave the legal authority for the right to march from Selma to Montgomery, and he suffered dearly for it. He was ostracized and rejected. His life was threatened as a result of it.

The Davis-Oliver bill will enhance cooperation with state and local authorities to ensure that criminal immigrants and terrorists are swiftly, really swiftly, identified and removed.

The danger I faced was not accepted as reasonable grounds for deferring my tax payments, as authorities, who despite being told all of this, still chose to pursue action against me, as opposed to finding an alternative solution.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.

The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

The driving force behind doing everything that I've been doing as a stand-up is having problems with authority and not liking to be told what to do.

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.

The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as was widely interpreted. It was instead a consequence of a very serious government failure, in particular a failure in the monetary authorities to do what they'd initially been set up to do.

The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

The invocation of science, of its ground rules, of the exclusive validity of the methods that science has now completely become, now constitutes a surveillance authority punishing free, uncoddled, undisciplined thought and tolerating nothing of mental activity other than what has been methodologically sanctioned. Science and scholarship, the medium of autonomy, has degenerated into an instrument of heteronomy.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth.

The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in the state will never be convinced that dangerous reasoning ought not to be suppressed in some way.

The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

The Parliament in Canada and the Congress in Washington do not have the authority to revoke the commandments of God, or to modify or amend them in any way.

The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.