Authority Quotes
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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.
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Authority is no source for Truth.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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When they lose their sense of awe, people turn to religion. When they no longer trust themselves, they begin to depend upon authority. Therefore the Master steps back so that people won't be confused. He teaches without a teaching, so that people will have nothing to learn.
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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.
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There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.
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We have the highest authority for believing that the meek shall inherit the earth; though I have never found any particular corroboration of this aphorism in the records of Somerset House.
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Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other doctor whatsoever, if but a man.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
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The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
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Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.
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In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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Writing a book is a tremendous experience. It pays off intellectually. It clarifies your thinking. It builds credibility. It is a living engine of marketing and idea spreading, working every day to deliver your message with authority. You should write one.
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I don't run behind authority.
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.
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The highest duty is to respect authority.
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There is nothing going on in your life that you don't have the authority to overcome.
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Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.
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Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.
