Authority Quotes
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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.
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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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I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these megachurches - for me the concern is to not assume they have more authority than they actually have, to not give them a kind of reach that they really don't possess.
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Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!
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Authority to heal is given from on high.
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Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
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... I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese; I would have to take care of it myself. This would be safer and also consistent with my own responsibility. The latter is the anarch’s ultimate authority.
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And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
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Submission is not about authority and it is not obedience; it is all about relationships of love and respect.
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Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.
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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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One of the important lessons I learned from my parents is always to respect authority figures like teachers.
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Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.
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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.
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Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them.
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Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.
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Note that an informed source need not fit our general stereotype of an “authority”—and a person who fits our stereotype of an authority may not even be an informed source.
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We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.
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Classic was Jimmy Savile’s use of the cloak of authority and kindness. Savile’s celebrity allowed him to acquire this authority. As we consider the regulation of the media and the legal right to privacy it is worth reflecting on how the Savile scandal happened. It happened because the aura of Sir Jimmy’s celebrity protected him from scrutiny by the press.
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I don't want to use the term "nuclear weapons" because those people in Iran who have authority say they are not building nuclear weapons. I make an appeal to the countries who do have nuclear weapons. They don't consider them a nuclear threat. But let's say a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons gets involved in building them, then they are told by those that already have nuclear weapons that they oppose such a development. Where is the justice in that?
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Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.
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If word got out that anyone was moving soldiers, they could expect a tuman to turn up on the horizon. Genghis was not a man to ignore a naked challenge to his authority. The Mongol army moved and millions would die.
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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 Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...
