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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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"Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself."
28
"I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar."
28
"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
26
"We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority."
17
"Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want."
16
"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."
15
"Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him."
11
"I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be."
10
"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."
10
"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."
9
"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."
9
"No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority."
9
"If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?"
8
"Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority."
8
"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."
8
"Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the White House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great?"
8
"Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it."
8
"Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions."
7
"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority."
7
"The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed."
7
"The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe."
7
"Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear."
7
"Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority."
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"I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution."
6
"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."
6
"The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes."
5
"Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve."
5
"The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin."
5
"I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!"
5
"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."
5
"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."
5
"How do you know who s the leader? When he says nothing, but everybody understands what has to be done."
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