Authority Quotes

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

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

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

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person.

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

The Supreme Court of the United States is hereby commanded to try Andrew Johnson for usurpation of our Imperial authority and prerogatives, and if found guilty, behead him or send him here to black the Emperor's boots.

The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

It's as though all the terms of a family were present at one time rather than his dad and his mum. Not just a present authority, but the resident memory of what qualifies what else is the case.

I've never been any good with authority.

Authority is not a quality one person "has," in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

Between a man and his wife nothing ought to rule but love. Authority is for children and servants, yet not without sweetness.

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.