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Authority Quotes
Im the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? - John Mellencamp Quotes
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law. - Denis Diderot Quotes
To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. - Albert Einstein Quotes
But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age. - Allen Tate Quotes
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself. - Golda Meir Quotes
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. - Aristide Briand Quotes
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. - Erich Fromm Quotes
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy. - Jurgen Klinsmann Quotes
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. - Peter Straub Quotes
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. - Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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. - Barbara Olson Quotes
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. - William H Seward Quotes
There is no stopping the worlds tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few. - Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. - James Russell Lowell Quotes
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. - Lee Haney Quotes
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. - Lionel Trilling Quotes
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. - Allen Boyd Quotes
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour. - William Kingdon Clifford Quotes
When asked for the main reasons I became Catholic seven years ago, I provide two: the Eucharist and the authority of the Church. - Carl Olson Quotes
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. - Robert A Heinlein Quotes
It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed. - Gerrit Smith Quotes
I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it. - Henry A Wise Quotes
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. - Ryszard Kapuscinski Quotes
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates. - Arleigh Burke Quotes
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. - Michel Foucault Quotes
No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we dont even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people. - Joe Slovo Quotes
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics. - David Amram Quotes
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts. - Voltaire Quotes
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. - Vita Sackville West Quotes
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms. - Bryant H Mcgill Quotes
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