Authority Quotes

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

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.

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Authority is never without hate.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

The wisest have the most authority.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

Authority forgets a dying king.

The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Well, our statute provides us with authority to conduct a very broad inquiry basically to provide an investigation of 9/11 that's thorough, complete and will withstand the scrutiny of history.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

No authority is higher than reality.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

I cannot stand authority.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

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.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

To see and be acquainted with strangers, in especial with men in honour and authority.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

When I'm around authority, I still feel like I'm 14 or 15 years old.

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?

I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

I've never been any good with authority.

The NRA provided that in America each industry should be organized into a federally supervised trade association. It was not called a corporative. It was called a Code Authority.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.

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 last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.

I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

Think for yourself and question authority.