In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable.

I’m a lion in a strange land.

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they...

Respect the young and chastise your elders. It’s about time the world was set aright.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

The only way we succeed as a group is not simply following directions, but in keeping each other accountable for our actions.

Don’t listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist’s is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral behaviors for the permanent good of mankind, begins at science...

Unfortunately, most followers do not know that they can also become leaders because to them, leadership is confined to an “assumed” category of people who have authority or social prestige as their background pillows.

When Authority is discovered and faith applied, power is manifested

You can’t stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

Certainly, a clear line must be preserved by strict discipline, and on the other hand the men must know that everything is done for them that hard times permit. On the top of that it...

The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical assumptions of human thought to their hiding places, and in this pursuit it may finally...

The Palestinian Authority managed to prevent any confrontation between Palestinians and Israelis as the settlers were leaving and this is an indication that the police can do their job,

It is noteworthy that at a time when every religious sanction of authority has vanished, we live in a very authoritarian epoch.

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

There is no higher authority.

Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority.

In order to get over the ethical difficulties presented by the naive naturalism of many parts of those Scriptures, in the divine authority of which he firmly believed, Philo borrowed from the Stoics (who had...

meeting … called by the U.S. to give their vision of the interim Iraqi authority. It will be a one-day meeting. And the U.S. will present its vision, and there will be a statement after...

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...

It won’t be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path – up or down – meaning it isn’t always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To...

It is therefore high time that we learned from past mistakes and used our considerable moral authority on the question of nuclear disarmament for the greater good of international peace and stability, rather than simply...

I guess it wouldn’t discourage a real mob for very long, but it packs all the authority you can put in a desk drawer.

We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

To accept Jesus is to accept His total authority in your life.

The idea that each of us can be directly spiritual is radical. Most religions are based not on teaching adherents to be directly spiritual, but in persuading them to trust in the intercession of ministers...

When students cheat on exams it’s because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

[Theseus] soon found himself involved in factions and troubles; those who long had hated him had now added to their hatred contempt; and the minds of the people were so generally corrupted, that, instead of...

We know from accounts of Rilke’s life that his stay in Rodin’s workshops taught him how modern sculpture had advanced to the genre of the autonomous torso. The poet’s view of the mutilated body thus...

She discovered in a series of beautifully executed researches the fundamental distinction between carbons that turned on heating into graphite and those that did not. Further she related this difference to the chemical constitution of...

But it doesn’t take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.””It might to keep it open.

And so, it does beg the question: Do you need that kind of authority (for active-duty troops)? And that’s going to have to be part of the long discussion,

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?[Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection to heliocentrism due to the Bible’s support of geocentrism]

Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions.

There is no way you can have a trial in a country where there is absolutely no authority. That is the situation in Baghdad today.

I think you are wrong, partner Elijah. My briefing on human characteristics here among the people of Earth includes the information that, unlike the men of the Outer Worlds, they are trained from birth to...

The hearing will be conducted tomorrow because of the transcendental importance of the issues involved. There is authority for the view that the court will decide the question even if it has been rendered moot.

The world ultimately is what we say it is.

The so-called spiritual inquiry must necessarily address questions of authority and power since both individuals and the organizations that represent them generally seek legitimacy from hegemonic interpretations of truth and reality. The only way to...

…legitimacy is based on three things. First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice–that if they speak up, they will be heard. Second, the...

What authority does a court clerk have to collect more than the fine that is owed? Essentially, that’s what they’re doing.

It is unfortunate that when you want to make some people feel like human beings, they begin to take you as an animal.

It is time to impose the authority of law and order. These events … harm our international credibility and strengthen Israel ‘s pretext to undermine peace and stop withdrawals.

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, that the multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful....

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

The ultimate authority of my life is not the Bible; it is not confined between the covers of a book. It is not something written by men and frozen in time. It is not from...

It is very seldom that the NTC has used its power and authority to close down radio stations and TV stations, only when the situation calls for it.