Authority Quotes
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There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.
Pablo Picasso
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Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
Simon Sinek
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The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.
Cornelius Cardew
AMM
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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
Bill Vaughan
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I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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Okay, so maybe you are the world’s authority on the art of making butter sculptures of dead presidents’ heads, but if you want to sell a book on the subject you’ll have to do more than know your stuff. You’ll need to make the idea sound sexy, or cool, or hot, or timely, or cute, or something that instantly makes it clear to people why the world needs your book.
Sam Barry
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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
Francis Bacon
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The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.
John Bevere
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Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.
Mark Levin
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The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.
R. C. Sproul
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Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.
Lou Barletta
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[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.
William H. Gass