Authority Quotes
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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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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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We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
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Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do.
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It's symbolic of how I feel, with cameras on every street corner. Being watched all the time, having my sense of freedom invaded. Privacy is an important thing, and it has been eroded over the past few years. Now they're talking about body scans at airports. Democracy becomes a sham the second you have to give way to authorities who can do any kind of search that they want with you.
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
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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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As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.
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They must find it difficult ... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.
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Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"
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Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.
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The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.
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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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When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.
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I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods.
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The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.
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He disliked wearing his uniform and always changed out of it right away when he came home. Symbols of authority irritated him—unless the authority was his own.
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You cannot “save” a church without focusing on the important things that make it a church—scriptural authority, biblical leadership, teaching and preaching, ordinances, covenant community, and mission.
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A country will have authority and influence because of moral factors, not its military strength; because it can be humble and not blatant and arrogant; because our people want to serve others and not dominate others. And a nation without morality will soon lose its influence around the world.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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A child has been born for us, A son given to us; Authority rests upon his shoulders; And he is named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God
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People will give you the responsibility, even the authority, to go after the big things, the visionary things, the reaching for incredible opportunities, if they trust that you're running a city well. And if you don't run a city well, conversely, you can't do the big things.
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I cannot stand authority.
