Authority Quotes

• The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Action
  • Concern
  • Propaganda

• The Bible alone is the only authority that can bind the conscience of a person absolutely because it is the only authority that carries with it the intrinsic authority of God Himself.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Alone
  • Bible

• I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Respect
  • Idea
  • Teach

• Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

  

  Socrates
  • Knowing
  • Rests
  • Solely

• I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified by the fact that you are encouraged to buy a gun, but if you use it for the purpose that it is expressly designed for, you get the death penalty. That aspect of America is kind of mystifying.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • America
  • Policies
  • Domestic

• Obedience to authority saves many skins.

  

  Sophocles
  • Authority
  • Skins
  • Obedience

• Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Authority
  • Destroys
  • Relaxed

• The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Economy
  • Authority
  • Trade

• Everyone that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others; as many husbands, parents, masters, magistrates, that live after the flesh do carry themselves like oppressing lords over such as are under them, not knowing that their wives, children, servants, subjects are their fellow creatures, and hath an equal privilege to share them in the blessing of liberty.

  

  Gerrard Winstanley
  • Liberty
  • Authority
  • Fellow

• The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Political
  • Individual
  • Constitution

• When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.

  

  John Bevere
  • Authority

• Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Perspective
  • Provide

• I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Children
  • Blow

• Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Children
  • Leader
  • Parent

• The Soviet State does not need either illusions or camouflage. It can claim only that world authority which is confirmed by the facts.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Illusions
  • Camouflage
  • Soviet State

• The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.

  

  John Bevere
  • Greater
  • Endure
  • Hardship

• Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lying
  • Garden
  • Plant

• I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust, I stood up to it, and that became my personality.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Problem
  • Authority
  • Developed

• To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Writing
  • Silence
  • Oneself

• It's far from clear that restoring Christian social authority is an appropriate aim of politics in the first place.

  

  Josh Hawley
  • Christian
  • Authority
  • Politic

• Okay, so maybe you are the world’s authority on the art of making butter sculptures of dead presidents’ heads, but if you want to sell a book on the subject you’ll have to do more than know your stuff. You’ll need to make the idea sound sexy, or cool, or hot, or timely, or cute, or something that instantly makes it clear to people why the world needs your book.

  

  Sam Barry
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Healthy

• There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Authority
  • Dictatorship
  • Betrayed

• Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

  

  Lou Barletta
  • Law
  • Picks
  • Mayors

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