Authority Quotes
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.
Imran Khan -
The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.
Naftali Bennett
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THIS law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original.
William Blackstone -
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 -
The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
Barack Obama -
We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.
William Hedgcock Webster -
I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
Bessie Head -
I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
Nicolas Cage
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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.
Oscar Wilde -
If one asks the whence derives the authority of fundamental ends, since they cannot be stated and justified merely by reason, one can only answer: they exist in a healthy society as powerful traditions, which act upon the conduct and aspirations and judgments of the individuals; they are there, that is, as something living, without its being necessary to find justification for their existence.
Albert Einstein -
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
William James -
No moral system can rest solely on authority.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer -
I write because I have authority from life to do so.
Bessie Head -
The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.
Ovadia Yosef
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This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
Following is one of the most underrated aspects of leadership.... I have seen many a good [military unit] underachieve, because someone...thought the commander was incompetent, and quietly worked to undermine his authority.
William H. McRaven -
I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.
Sebastian Thrun -
Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority.
Barack Obama -
For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.
May Sinclair
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If there should chance to be any mathematicians who, ignorant in mathematics yet pretending to skill in that science, should dare, upon the authority of some passage of Scripture wrested to their purpose, to condemn and censure my hypothesis, I value them not, and scorn their inconsiderate judgement.
Nicolaus Copernicus -
Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion -
Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.
Henry James Sumner Maine -
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