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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."
58
"Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself."
46
"I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar."
39
"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
38
"Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want."
34
"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."
34
"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"
27
"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."
26
"The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes."
25
"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."
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"We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority."
24
"Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it."
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"Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority."
22
"I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be."
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"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."
21
"Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him."
21
"Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear."
21
"Majority rule gives the ruthless strong man plenty of elbow room to oppress his fellows."
21
"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."
19
"Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect."
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"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."
18
"The seal marks you out as royalty determines how you carry yourself."
18
"Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority."
18
"Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions."
17
"The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed."
17
"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?"
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"I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority."
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"You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility."
16
"Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates."
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"The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction."
16
"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."
16
"How do you know who s the leader? When he says nothing, but everybody understands what has to be done."
16
"Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country."
16
"She knew the power of bureaucracy well enough to be aware she had to sit and be admonished until this stranger felt she had expressed sufficient disappointment in a girl she would never have to see again."
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