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...

…There are also those who inadvertently grant power to another man’s words by continuously trying to spite him. If a man gets to the point where he can simply say, ‘The sky is blue,’ and...

Paul Martin’s government has lost the moral authority to govern.

Authority to dream is not given, it is taken. Take it. Do not let the judgment of others be the final word. Without a doubt, if there is a one-word, one-step cure for bad peg...

How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible...

If states were given more authority we would work within the parameters supporting a culture of life,

FIDNET won’t monitor any private network or e-mail traffic or confer new authority on any government agency, and will be fully consistent with privacy law and practice — right?

As authority is transferred back to an Iraqi administration in mid-2004, the reconstruction of vital oil installations will provide jobs, skills and technology to the Iraq people.

…bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius – not the display of talent…

As we know, Rilke, under the influence of Auguste Rodin, whom he had assisted between 1905 and 1906 in Meudon as a private secretary, turned away from the art nouveau-like, sensitized-atmospheric poetic approach of his...

Nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion of authority; like too strong liquor for a frail glass

The problem is, who do they report to? No one knows, … It seems there is no one who has authority over all these people coming down from all over the United States.

If the people of Europe had known as much of astronomy and geology when the bible was introduced among them, as they do now, there never could have been one believer in the doctrine of...

I have no idea what the Ports Authority is thinking and I never have. We’re moving forward with the condemnation and feel confident it’s back on track and are delighted that the Supreme Court ruling...

You understand Teacher, don’t you, that when you have a mother who’s an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then...

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and...

Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: ‘Perhaps I need someone else to control me.

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in...

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him,...

Those are the barriers on both sides. Apart from that, the PUC essentially has complete authority to make (rate) adjustments.

A person who wields power cannot see truth; that is the privilege of the powerless.

Allegations of multi-perpetrator and multi-victim sexual abuse emerged to public awareness in the early 1980s contemporaneously with the denials of the accused and their supporters. Multi-perpetrator sexual offences are typically more sadistic than solo offences...

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

The connection between the Palestinian Authority and the smuggling operation is unequivocal, clear, and undeniable, … Official figures in the Palestinian Authority were involved, among them senior officials in the Palestinian naval police.

When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you’re using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.

It clarified the situation. We have said all along that we have the authority. The ball is sort of in their court now.

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

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Without that, the face of the world would not have changed, … the greatest moral authority of our time.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

We have not found any evidence or data either within the Ministry of Health or within the Fraser Health Authority that would appear to substantiate that particular suggestion, so we’re following up now with the...

And you are going to close the gates, because I told you to close the gates.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Unemployment or the loss of income which will always affect some in any society is certainly less degrading if it is the result of misfortune and not deliberately imposed by authority.

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

The vanities of life:pleasure, possession, position and power.

You can’t believe everything people tell you – not even if those people are your own brain.

We emphasized our determination to maintain and preserve this calm, … The Palestinian Authority exerts a great deal of effort in reforming our security organizations.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that’s all right.

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new...

What few rules appear to be in place are all made up.

A coward’s gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.

The Kantian imperative to have the courage to think for oneself has involved a contemptuous disregard for the resources of tradition and an infantile view of authority as inherently oppressive.

For this is what it means to be a king: to be first in every desperate attack and last in every desperate retreat, and when there’s hunger in the land (as must be now and...

Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.

Why do you need that thing?” September asked. “None of the airports back home have them.””They do. You just can’t see them right,” Betsy Basilstalk said with a grin. “All customs agents have them, otherwise,...

Where everyone wants to be a leader, it makes one a follower to want to be a leader, and a leader to know what to follow.