Authority Quotes
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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
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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
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I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'
Dana Carvey
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All I'm being offered now are parts that are authority figures. I've done that. And that's not what I want. I want something different.
Yaphet Kotto
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When we oppose God's delegated authority, we oppose God Himself.
John Bevere
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Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
Socrates
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I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
Loudon Wainwright III
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There are questions of real power and then there are questions of phony authority. You have to break through the phony authority to begin to fight the real questions of power.
Karen Nussbaum
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Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
Simon Sinek
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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
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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.
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God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.
Bill Vaughan
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The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.
John Bevere
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Government, not the oil industry, is the biggest 'profiteer' from oil. And it uses the tax revenue to expand its own authority at the expense of the individual, as it does with an endless number of other industries - including electric power, coal, lumber, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, aircraft, and agriculture. The Statist's intrusion to the free market is boundless.
Mark Levin
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Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
Francis Bacon
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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
