Best 817 quotes in «authority quotes» category

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.

I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Jurisdiction is not given for the sake of the judge, but for that of the litigant.

I wouldn't want to be anyone to usurp the authority of the WWE.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

I would rather be viewed by the reader as I'm just taking a journey with you, and here's what I'm learning, what are you learning? Oh, you do this better than me. Than to be viewed as kind of like an authority.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

Leaders must display their humanness. Those under their authority must be empowered & have the courage to engage in honest dialogue.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Kim Jong Un is an unreasonable leader and a very dangerous person. Yet he is the person who has effective control over North Korea, and he is the person who has the authority to denuclearize North Korea.

Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Listen to authority figures because of their position, but only believe them if they can explain why.

Lots of things are not possible for municipalities, suburbs, or collections of them now. They are not possible and they would become possible, because they would have more authority. They would have the same authority as a province now.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.

Lolitas do not recognize any authority. They follow only the values they have chosen for themselves, regardless of what anybody might say.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare. Whenever, therefore, money has been raised by the general authority, and is to be applied to a particular measure, a question arises whether the particular measure be within the enumerated authorities vested in Congress. If it be, the money requisite for it may be applied to it; if it be not, no such application can be made.

Much of the blame for the situation lies with the states themselves. They haven't been able to pass decent laws. For decades, tax authorities have been taking aim at the phenomenon of tax havens, and the most aggravating thing is that they aren't just in Bermuda or on the Cayman Islands, but right outside our front door.

Modesty is that feeling by which honorable shame acquires a valuable and lasting authority.

Molecular evolution is not based on scientific authority. . . . There are assertions that such evolution occurred, but absolutely none are supported by pertinent experiments or calculations. Since no one knows molecular evolution by direct experience, and since there is no authority on which to base claims of knowledge, it can truly be said that . . . the assertion of Darwinian molecular evolution is merely bluster.

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

My counsel advises me that there is no controlling legal authority or case that says there was any violation of law whatsoever.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Nature's government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction.

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.

Never before had I recognized the ring of majesty that was in Billy Black's voice, though I realized now that this authority had always been there.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

No one is obliged to take a position on the urgent issues of the day, but there are times when our impoverished public sphere could do with some occasional assertions of literary and moral authority.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

Obedience to authority saves many skins