Authority Quotes

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men.

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.

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

Authority is never without hate.

For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority.

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.

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

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

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

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

There are millions of kids who, naturally, if we could only remember how it is - you know, you resent authority, you are impatient for change, you want to fix things up.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.