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 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...

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 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,...

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.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Our natural rights come from an authority beyond the petty rule of man.

Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in...

They have to get authority from the President through their department heads,

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.

When they don’t have the moral authority to govern, we have to express what Quebeckers think, and I think Quebeckers don’t want the Liberals any more, … So we’re expressing the voices of all those...

Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy.

You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or a slave. Whether it is to be progress or stagnation.As long as man...

The nature of the proposals is that the Taiwan authority is trying to air ‘two Chinas’ or ‘one China, one Taiwan’ and ‘Taiwan Independence’ in the international community,

Much more common and insidious in the contemporary world is a situation where central authority has disappeared and you have this kind of free for all. That is what we’re seeing in Iraq, so yes,...

But I was amazed at how organized the Palestinian election authority was, how competent they were in setting up their polling places and the poll workers they had.

…a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator….

The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses … the authorization to form a message that appeals from within itself. This power of appeal is...

Those who have faith in the Veda and its authority can personally experience this.

Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this...

The trouble with our society is that responsibility and authority have become separated,” he went on, warming to his theme. “The people with the authority to do things no longer take any responsibility for what...

RABBLE, n. In a republic, those who exercise a supreme authority tempered by fraudulent elections. The rabble is like the sacred Simurgh, of Arabian fable –omnipotent on condition that it do nothing. (The word is...

I don’t go that deep. It’s all about our budget. We answer to a higher authority — which is our lender.

The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish...

Without agreement on rank and a certain respect for authority there can be no great sensitivity to social rules, as anyone who has tried to teach simple house rules to a cat will agree.

The BOJ used its authority to make the decision even though deflation remains a problem.

We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible?

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into...

It is a duty of every citizen to pray for those who are authority and the nation; so that each one of us may live a peaceful and quiet lives in sacredness.

God gave man the authority to rule and protect all the animals in the aquatic ecosystems.

However, China’s police authority would not sit by and be apathetic and indifferent to law-violating behaviors or content on the Internet.

Today, acknowledgement of the prevalence and harms of child sexual abuse is counterbalanced with cautionary tales about children and women who, under pressure from social workers and therapists, produce false allegations of ‘paedophile rings’, ‘cult...

Despite federal laws and requirement, the CIO is not a member of the senior management team with authority to strategically manage department-wide technology assets and programs.