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.

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

He’s showing that you don’t need formal authority. You can have moral authority and be a player – not positional authority, but moral authority? In many ways, it’s a personal crisis like that which drives...

Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to stare at them in astonishment like fools, are soon considered heretical and impious,...

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...

This is part of their [the Israelis’] continued plan to undermine the peace process and to undermine the Palestinian Authority,

Think for yourself and question authority

There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can...

You are the authority and the gatekeeper of your own life.

I’ll be on my third honeymoon, so I’m more of an authority than I care to be,

As long as the Palestinian Authority doesn’t fulfill its duty to contain terrorism, there is no alternative left for us but to act, … As long as there is a war, we are in war.

The judges have full authority to exercise discretion. That’s why they’re there.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

As Ernest Becker observes in The Denial of Death, the very thought of disobeying authority appears to awaken the anxiety connected with the possible loss, during infancy, of parental love, respect or support. The unexamined...

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

Strong combat leadership is never by committee. Platoon commanders must command, and command in battle isn’t based on consensus. It’s based on consent. Any leader wields only as much authority and influence as is conferred...

Wherever morality is based on theology, wherever right is made dependent on divine authority, the most immoral, unjust, infamous things can be justified and established.

We are ready. I am the head of the Authority. I have already recognized Israel, and I am against terrorism.

Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don’t accept your authority then you don’t have it. Perhaps the critical thing...

Your authority and my degeneracy are one in the same.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

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.