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Authority Quotes
"I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge."
"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."
"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn."
"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!"
"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."
"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."
"We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority."
"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."
"Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority."
"But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes."
"I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution."
"We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate."
"Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates."
"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?"
"This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims."
"Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority."
"If you should see any Indians you will oblige me by repeating this prohibition to them."
"Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness."
"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."
"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."
"If the devil is sending you thoughts of fear, resist him, stop the thoughts."
"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."
"Authority pisses me off. I think everyone should be able to drink and get loud whenever they want."
"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."
"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."
"The disciplined rule our world."
"The churches... have lost much of their authority over youth because they have refused to re-examine their religious sanctions and their dogmatic preaching in the light of modern physiology, psychology and sociology."
"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."
"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."
"It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for."
"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."
"Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him."
"The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land."
"In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable."
"You are a lawmaker in your own right."
"'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions."
"The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction."
"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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