Authority Quotes
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To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.
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College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.
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Teaching and writing, really, they support and nourish each other, and they foster good thinking. Because when you show up in the classroom, you may have on the mantle of authority, but in fact, you're just a writer helping other writers think through their problems. Your experience with the problems you've tried to solve comes into play in how you try to teach them to solve their problems.
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New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
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You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.
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My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.
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Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
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In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of 'reason' as single sources of authority.
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Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.
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One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign... Secondly, a just cause... Thirdly... a rightful intention.
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The more ignorant the authority, the more dogmatic it is. In the fields where no real knowledge is even possible, the authorities are the fiercest and most assured and punish non-belief with the severest of penalties.
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Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.
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Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
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The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.
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If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.
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Earlier maps had underestimated the distances to other continents and exaggerated the outlines of individual nations. Now global dimensions could be set, with authority, by the celestial spheres. Indeed, King Louis XIV of France, confronted with a revised map of his domain based on accurate longitude measurements, reportedly complained that he was losing more territory to his astronomers than to his enemies.
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And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
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Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
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In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual's decision on whether and when to pray.
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At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
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After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.
