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Authority Quotes
"Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve."
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"The seal marks you out as royalty determines how you carry yourself."
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"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."
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"Respect by fear isn't respect... it's fear."
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"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."
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"Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort."
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"Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority."
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"Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience."
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"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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"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."
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"It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for."
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"Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority."
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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."
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"It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved."
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"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."
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"The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction."
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"Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions."
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"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."
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"I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution."
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"Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them."
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"Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority."
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"And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority."
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"Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing."
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"Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him."
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"Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller."
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"Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense."
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"I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority."
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"Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later."
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"Whatever is enforced by command is more imputed to him who exacts than to him who performs."
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"Because we want to be inwardly secure, we are constantly seeking methods and means for this security, and thereby we create authority, the worship of another, which destroys comprehension, that spontaneous tranquility of mind in which alone there can be a state of creativeness."
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"Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions."
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