Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
~By William O. Douglas ~
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.
~By Robert Hall ~
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
~By Frank Howard Clark ~
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.
~By Lawrence Kohlberg ~
But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
~By Irving R. Kaufman ~
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
~By Voltaire ~
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.
~By John Acton ~
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
~By Siegfried Sassoon ~
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
~By William Greider ~
I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
~By Hugh Lofting ~
In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.
~By Wilhelm Ostwald ~
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.
~By Phil Angelides ~
Mr. Truman studiously avoided giving power to his White House staff that has been characteristic of recent administrations. Staff people in the White House, with no responsibility but incredible authority is one of the reasons we're now in so much trouble.
~By Stuart Symington ~
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
~By Lord Acton ~
Think for yourself and question authority.
~By Timothy Leary ~
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
~By William J. Clinton ~
The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
~By Mikhail Bakunin ~
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
~By Tupac Shakur ~
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.
~By Mahmoud Abbas ~
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
Now they call in all of the authority figures they can find and hire them - the cost has gone up. The picture may or may not get better, but definitely, it gets more cumbersome.
~By Don Bluth ~
Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.
~By Alfred Noyes ~
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
~By Samuel Adams ~
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
~By Barney Frank ~
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
~By Joseph Addison ~
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.
~By Benjamin Tucker ~
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
~By Marie de France ~
My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.
~By Arnold Schwarzenegger ~
There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.
~By Louis Stokes ~
The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
~By Ann Macbeth ~
I don't value authority. I don't value the systems. I don't value patriarchal religion. I don't value the things that diminish you when you do tell the truth. So I'm not scared of the end result, and that is the biggest asset I have.
~By Susan Powter ~
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
~By David Amram ~
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.
~By Steve Chabot ~
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
~By Barbara Olson ~
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
I've always had trouble with authority.
~By John Milius ~
But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.
~By Allen Tate ~
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
~By Orson Pratt ~
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
~By George Bancroft ~
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed.
~By Moshe Katsav ~
I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.
~By Elena Kagan ~
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
~By Hu Shih ~
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
~By James Madison ~
How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.
~By Neal Boortz ~
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
~By Maureen Dowd ~
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
~By Bill Forsyth ~
Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.
~By Sid Vicious ~
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.
~By Theodore White ~
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.
~By John Stott ~
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.
~By John Wycliffe ~
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.
~By David Baker ~
No authority is higher than reality.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want.
~By James Hetfield ~
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.
~By Martha Beck ~
It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.
~By Adnan Pachachi ~
A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~
The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.
~By Arthur Keith ~
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
~By William H. Seward ~
I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.
~By John Engler ~
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.
~By John Winthrop ~
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.
~By Tony Snow ~
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
~By Herbert Read ~
The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.
~By Lionel Trilling ~
Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority.
~By John Culberson ~
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
~By Thomas Szasz ~
In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.
~By Georges Jacques Danton ~
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.
~By Orson Pratt ~
Though no one wants war, Congress needed to give the President the authority he needs to protect America while encouraging the use of diplomacy and negotiations to try and arrive at a peaceful solution to this problem.
~By Allen Boyd ~
Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.
~By Charles Hodge ~
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly.
~By Phillip Noyce ~
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
~By Jonathan Mayhew ~
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
~By Malcolm Forbes ~
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
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.
~By William Temple ~
I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
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.
~By Anita Hill ~
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.
~By Lee Haney ~
New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
~By Euripides ~
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
~By Kenneth Burke ~
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.
~By Stuart Symington ~
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
~By Michel Foucault ~
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.
~By Esai Morales ~
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
~By Stanley Milgram ~
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