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

I’m a lion in a strange land.

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

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.

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.

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities,...

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]

People respond more to the authority of status, than the authority of truth.

It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.

There’s always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It’s how you lend some authority to what you write – you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences...

Today is the moment of truth for the Liberals, who do not have moral authority to govern. Will the prime minister respect the will of the elected representatives of the people and recognize he no...

‘And it means naught to you to obey your father’s orders? Where is your fealty?’ Christian felt his face flush with a surge of bitter rage. ‘I keep faith with those who have kept faith...

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

I am an anarch – not because I despise authority, but because I need it. Likewise, I am not a nonbeliever, but a man who demands something worth believing in.

Since you have to involve more than one national authority, it is recommended to start the procedure a year ahead of retirement age.

one authority, one legitimate gun, one law.

In the worst, but not implausible case, central authority in one or more of these states could evaporate as rival clans or regions vie for power — opening the door to an expansion of terrorist...

Jews do not destroy synagogues. I hope the Palestinian Authority will come to its senses and not allow barbarism and vandalism to rule over the synagogues.

But the fact that judges follow precedent regularly even though not invariably does not support the legalistic theory as strongly as one might expect. The original precedent in a line of precedents could not have...

It is a profound political reality that Christ now occupies the supreme seat of cosmic authority. The kings of this world and all secular governments may ignore this reality, but they cannot undo it. The...

Being mayor doesn’t give her the authority to violate the Constitution or suspend it. Anyone has the right to attend a meeting of government bodies as provided by state law and directly by the Constitution....

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge,fitter to bruise than polish.”[Meditations Divine and Moral]

We tell our supporters that they had a government under religious authority and look what happened. Everything got worse.

I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else’s. I’m happy to respect authority when it’s genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I’m eager to...

Naturally, I always place my word over anyone else’s simply because I know why I said what I said.

there is tremendous displeasure with the function and dysfunction of the government and the Palestinian Authority.

Authority is not a quality one person ‘has,’ in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to...

Clearly appointing a homeland coordinator with only advisory authority is not enough. We need a robust agency to carry out the core functions of homeland defense,

Jesus doesn’t come asking if He can hang out with us. He commands us to follow Him. He has total authority and will settle for nothing less; He won’t settle for being an accessory, an...

I don’t use ‘always do this,’ ‘never say that’ and I never give advice because I’m not the end-all, be-all authority.

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.

…each person is required to ask, ‘what is my authority?’ – on what do you base your decisions? if it’s yourself, then you are without excuse…

I’ve heard many say “I’ll sell my soul to the Devil”in hopes of gaining money, power or fame.Why do they think that they have that much worth over any other person?And the Devil if there...

I hope now that in the longer term they will give authority to the fourth official to suspend matches where there is racist abuse of the type we witnessed in Madrid, and if the chanting...

The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.