Authority Quotes
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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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Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered.
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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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The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England.
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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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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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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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The world isnt one way or another. Things can be changed very, very rapidly by someone with sufficient confidence, sufficient knowledge and sufficient authority.
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I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.
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Authority to heal is given from on high.
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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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The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
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The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...
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People were often good, and did good things, such as the things that had been done to help after Vesuvius erupted, but as soon as those same people were given any authority or power, they abused it, or ignored the human consequences of their actions. And the people who ended up suffering most were always the women, because they had no authority or power.
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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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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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New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.
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Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!
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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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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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And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.
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Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism.
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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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Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.
