Authority Quotes

• By 18th century standards, they Great Britain were the freest, most dynamic, most willing to challenge tradition and authority. They had the highest wages and highest living standard, and probably the most engagement between the populace and the government of any country. Then the United States took those same qualities to the nth degree, and the British were suddenly appeared stodgy and tradition-bound.

  

  Charles R. Morris
  • Country
  • Quality
  • Challenges

• Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Moral
  • Management
  • Formal

• 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.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Influence
  • Authority
  • Military strength

• Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.

  

  Benjamin Hoadly
  • Person
  • Laws
  • Authority

• Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that has been spoken of many times Do not believe because the written statements come from some old sage Do not believe in conjecture Do not believe in authority, or teachers, or elders But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Tradition
  • Teachers
  • Statements

• Our wise founders seemed to understand, better than most of us, our own scripture, which states that ‘it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority … they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.’

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Authority
  • Scripture
  • Founders

• Resolved, That all laws which prevent women from occupying such a station in society as her conscience shall dictate, or which place her in a position inferior to that of man, are contrary to the great precept of nature, and therefore of no force or authority.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Society
  • Laws
  • Resolved

• All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

  

  George Will
  • Children
  • Chaos
  • Authority

• 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.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • Running
  • Responsibility
  • Opportunities

• 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.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • Authority
  • Inclination

• The financial system has been turned over to the Federal Reserve Board. That Board administers the finance system by authority of a purely profiteering group. The system is Private, conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the greatest possible profits from the use of other people's money.

  

  Charles August Lindbergh
  • Freedom
  • Purpose
  • Financial

• Truth is the daughter of time, not authority.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Truth
  • Daughter
  • Authority

• In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge.

  

  Esai Morales
  • Voice
  • Authority
  • Charge

• Authority is not required to supply reasons for their behavior, because hierarchy trumps procedure.

  

  Noah Cicero
  • Authority
  • Behavior
  • Hierarchy

• Mother Earth is giving birth to a co-creative humanity. There's not a majority anywhere, but it's cropping up everywhere, because old leadership does not have the authority to guide us.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Earth
  • Humanity
  • Leadership

• The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Answers
  • Authority

• I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?

  

  Wilbur L. Creech
  • Responsibility
  • Authority
  • Accepting

• Some authorities believe that one prosperous thought is more powerful than a thousand failure thoughts; and that two prosperous attitudes steadily held and expressed are more powerful than ten thousand failure attitudes!

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Believe
  • Powerful
  • Attitude

• Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Choices
  • Leader

• The primary component upon which all else rests in a kingdom is the authority of the ruler. Without that, there is anarchy resulting in mess.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Mess
  • Anarchy
  • Kingdoms

• It's a very erroneous strategy to try to push the Russian opposition to unite. First of all, the opposition is addressing different parts of Russian society that have differing points of view. And besides, a united opposition is a nice big target that the authorities have a much easier time fighting. And besides, resisting an authoritarian regime with an authoritarian opposition merely means that, in the event of victory, you're just doing yet another round of the same old, same old.

  

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky
  • Different
  • Fighting
  • Point

• I really rebel against authority.

  

  Mariah Carey
  • Authority
  • Rebel

• Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Attention
  • Authority

• The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Authority

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