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Authority Quotes
"In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost."
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"The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis."
69
"Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself."
57
"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
51
"I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar."
45
"The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes."
39
"Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want."
39
"The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly."
35
"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"
34
"We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority."
30
"The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. "I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined, he said sourly."
29
"Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it."
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"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."
29
"Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear."
27
"I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be."
27
"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."
26
"Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority."
26
"No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority."
25
"Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him."
25
"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort."
25
"Majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows."
25
"The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed."
24
"Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special."
24
"The seal marks you out as royalty determines how you carry yourself."
24
"I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject."
24
"And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings."
23
"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."
23
"Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority."
23
"You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility."
22
"I'm going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is my giving a high five.' Kai's smiled brightened. 'That's genius. Me too."
22
"I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?"
22
"The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority."
22
"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."
22
"Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels."
21
"Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question."
21
"It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for."
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