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

Authority is not a power, it is a responsibility.

I’m a lion in a strange land.

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...

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...

I often ask myself, ‘Who would Jesus vote for?’ Then I start to think that he wouldn’t vote at all; however, it would not be out of apathy or disinterest, but out of perfection and...

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

We stopped the military work to give credibility to the Palestinian Authority, without canceling other options.

Being an authority on paper does not immediately grant you authority over a group until it is earned by you and given by them.

One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It’s implicit.

If this is what takes to get the Port Authority back to the table, we’re happy to offer them some new thoughts to get the conversation going.

Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

You can’t come in, colonel,” she told him. “You may be in command of your war, but I’m in command of my house.

The anarchist, as the born foe of authority, will be destroyed by it after damaging it more or less. The anarch, on the other hand, has appropriated authority; he is sovereign. He therefore behaves as...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

The constitution gives me clear and definite authority to remove a government from power, but I don’t want to use this authority. Everyone should know that by law this power is in my hands.

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

That is what I have always understood to be the essence of anarchism: the conviction that the burden of proof has to be placed on authority, and that it should be dismantled if that burden...

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

‘But even I know that in your line of work, there’s a difference between being a volunteer and being volun-told.’

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they’ve forgotten the main one, that love cannot be forced, and they have a deeply rooted habit of liberating people and making them happy, especially those...

System fails when people with ability don’t have authority and people with authority don’t have ability.

[Earlier, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer reiterated the administration’s support for reforming the authority.] It is time for the Palestinian Authority to reform. That is what the president is watching, … That is the heart...

Kitalifa ni utiifu kamili, woga, umbali (kwa maana ya kuwa mbali na biashara ya mamafia wengine mpaka kwa makubaliano maalumu) na nidhamu ya kutoshirikiana na mamlaka zote za serikali. Ukishtakiwa kwa kosa la madawa au...

Time and time again does the pride of man influence his very own fall. While denying it, one gradually starts to believe that he is the authority, or that he possesses great moral dominion over...

People who chase money without chasing any good reason for it are always brought down by the money they chase. Yes! If God gives you a gift, he adds it’s manual that contains how to...

The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.

when parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse

It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

The Palestinian Authority has faced a serious financial crisis since the start of the month.

…authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer…

Is it surprising that the cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, should have become...

In intertwining sentimentality, healing, narcissism, and authority, modern evangelicals give authority to those emotions themselves…The sentimental becomes evidence and authority in a world in which most evangelicals have given up intellectual pursuits and concerns over...

What authority does the United States have to gesticulate and make improper comments about China’s defensive national defense policy and measures?

Those who hold to the Christian faith see law as an ultimate order of the universe. It is the invariable factor in a variable world, the unchanging order in a changing universe. Law for the...

The State Board of Education has . . . constitutional authority to direct the public schools. I don’t think there’s anything more (basic) in that responsibility than curriculum.

True creation requires authority and authenticity.

authority” in fact proves to be standing over the scriptures, as an *outside* authority.

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

Everybody we’ve seen here today has an aversion to authority figures. They’re afraid of their government, … So the government has to reach out to that particular population if we expect to do anything with...

Mostly we think of people with great authority as higher up, far away, hard to reach. But spiritual authority comes from compassion and emerges from deep inner solidarity with those who are ‘subject’ to authority....

To be free, you have to examine authority, the whole skeleton of authority, tearing to pieces the whole dirty thing. And that requires energy, actual physical energy, and also it demands psychological energy. By the...

I was a rule-follower. I obeyed all forms of authority. I had never before encountered a situation where the authority was clearly wrong and I had to stand up for what was right.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

You can’t compare any book on earth to that which God has created. It has visionless humans as flat characters and those with vision as round characters. It has lucifer as the antagonist and himself...

This is happening at a time when the Palestinian Authority is trying to preserve the period of calm and abide by agreements reached with Israel, … Israel is seeking to escalate tensions and explode the...

Questioning authority doesn’t make you resistant; who should follow blindly without knowing the destination