Authority Quotes

What we really need to be understanding is that all of these things matter and they all stem from the fact that certain people live with power and authority and they want to maintain it.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

We respect the role of the Senate. We respect the authority of the Senate to look at the qualifications of Judge Roberts, and at the end of the day I'm optimistic that if given a fair hearing and a fair opportunity, that he will be confirmed.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Authority forgets a dying king.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

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

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

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.

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

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .

Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.

I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and where a man possesses these, although the bis.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national 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.

Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.