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...

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

There is no authority, there is no certain agency that monitors these types of offenders.

People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that some parents have such children or chanced that some have not! I am...

Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der zum Herrschen Geeignetste wäre, so ist es in unserer zeit naiv zu glauben, dass der demokratisch gewählte Machthaber der...

Be the one whose Lord is Jesus and who takes His words as a final authority without any thought of controversy. True believers follow Jehovah, not only for what He does, but specially for who...

Don’t give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero’s facade you will find a human being who makes human...

Milton’s learned vocabulary […] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents’ speech as heard by the child.

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

Once the delegation is there it would also get in touch with the Israeli authority.

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

The sign of a good leader is easy to recognize, though it is hardly ever seen. For the greatest leaders are those who share as equals in the trials and struggles, the demands and expectations,...

This day, the Government has no authority to reform the people; and the people have no authority the reform the Government.

more Palestinian Authority, not less.

All authority belongs to the people

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are...

The authorities don’t grant concessions out of the kindness of their hearts; they simply concede the reality of what their subjects are strong enough to compel from them. If you want political leverage, don’t beg...

You are the steer of your God given dreams. By the authority from the Holy Spirit of God, you will able to bend a curve where the road has a bend; you will be able...

Fit yourself where you are before you fix yourself where you can be!

The recasting of the Origin Myth as a story about the perils of disobedience precipitated a kind of decoupling of scripture from religious experience: when religious authorities began to insist on the literal truth of...

I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

Be’, dipende dai soffitti alti, no? Vedi cose che non esistono. E le cose che vedi sembrano altre cose. Un uccello può essere un pipistrello. Un pipistrello può essere una busta di plastica che vola....

Now the Palestinian Authority has to re-evaluate the decisions from last night and the necessary steps taken to protect the Palestinian people,

We believe that in this interim period it is very important to fund the Palestinian Authority. And we’ve been very clear that we intend to continue our humanitarian assistance in any case.

Congress has given us the authority to set safety standards. We’re merely restating our authority. We’re the agency that sets standards. Our standards are not minimum standards.

Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.

… Genesis 18 calls fathers to direct their children to keep the way of the Lord by doing what is right and just. Being a parent means working in God’s behalf to provide direction for...

The only thing Israel has done is accuse the Palestinian Authority of not implementing its commitments.

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue . . . let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the...

Don’t be scared by the word authority. Believing things on authority only means believing them because you’ve been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed...

I don’t believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

Our job is to serve each tribe. We don’t supplant their authority; we do not override their authority. We can only exercise the authority they grant us.

You think you can circumvent our authority and our powers. You can’t.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority

Unless you are in a civil war, how can you claim the authority to use such a device?

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by...

Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.

And we’re going to keep working on trying to develop some way to get (Israel and the Palestinian Authority) to agree on some basic principles, … Because I think it’s useful to the next administration,...

The constitution gives me explicit and definite authority to remove a government from power, but I don’t want to use this authority. But everyone should know that by law I have this power in my...

In order to the existence of such a ministry in the Church, there is requisite an authority received from God, and consequently power and knowledge imparted from God for the exercise of such ministry; and...

Modern industrial civilisation has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. The driving force of modern industrial civilisation has been individual material gain, which is accepted as legitimate, even praiseworthy, on the grounds that...

Every person has the inherent right to “self-proclaim”–to announce, at any time he chooses, that he is on any level he chooses to be on.

Believers infiltrate the enemy’s territory with knowledge and power.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.