Authority Quotes

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

~ Robert Gottlieb

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

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

The FISA Amendment Act of 2008 actually allows some of the things we were doing under the president's authority only against al Qaeda, it allows them for all legitimate foreign intelligence purposes.

~ Michael Hayden

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

~ Herbert Read

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.

~ Bruno Bettelheim

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away.

~ Shakti Gawain

The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows.

~ Roy Moore

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

~ Lech Walesa

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

~ Thomas Huxley

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

~ Thomas Jefferson

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.

~ Charles De Secondat

The leadership of the Palestinian Authority is not held in high regard by most of the population of the West Bank. They're seen as living relatively high off the hog and certainly not accomplishing anything vis-a-vis the Israelis.

~ Ian Lustick

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

~ Thomas Frank

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

~ Martha Beck

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

~ Larry Kramer

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

~ Michael Ignatieff

After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

~ Sheikh Hasina

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

~ Thomas Hobbes

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

~ Anne Bradstreet

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

~ Jim Morrison

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

~ Robert Morgan

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As I have said all along, for any trade promotion authority bill to gain my support, it must require strong, enforceable environmental and labor protections.

~ Suzan Delbene

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

~ Joseph Addison

Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'held' only by brute force. One person beats another until the latter will obey him, work for him, if he require it, or do nothing if he require it.

~ Lysander Spooner

The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.

~ Paul Gosar

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

~ Feisal Abdul Rauf

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

~ Orson Pratt

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

~ Michel Foucault