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.

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.

We’ve got to put Congress on the hot seat. Congress gave George Bush the authority and money to wage this war. Now they have to hold him accountable.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

If the Palestinian Authority continues to support violence, it is important that Israel and the international community make it clear they cannot advance their political agenda, their political goals, … Violence will bring about a...

You circumvent our authority and our process in this, … You stood there and said ‘I,’ ‘I,’ ‘I,’ ‘my vision,’ — she doesn’t know any other pronoun.

One great thinker said one thing, another said another, and while the two thoughts are contradicting, the one that backs my argument at the moment is the superior statement.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You’re dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

The lesson I learned is that when you give someone authority, you must be conscious you are doing so and continue to ask yourself whether it is in your best interests.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling…and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and...

This attack was aimed at sabotaging the elections and the efforts that have been made by the Palestinian Authority [PA].

The Palestinian Authority is under siege, imprisoned and ridiculed.

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity’s turn against the principle of imitating nature, that is to say, imitating predefined morphological expectations. It is still capable of perceiving message-totalities and autonomous thing-signals when...

When everything has gone down, God wants youto look up

Authority is ability to rule. Dominion is rulership.

When am I going to learn to stop questioning authority and just eat the Soylent Green?

FREEDOM, n. Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half dozen of restraint’s infinite multitude of methods. A political condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual monopoly. Liberty. The distinction...

The reason America is in its death-throes is because America has lost moral authority.

Presidents don’t make new friends. That’s why they’ve got to keep their old ones.” Adm. Fitzwallace

The case was never about blaming the terrorists, … It was about what the Port Authority should have done. They disregarded the advice of their own experts and other experts. They were motivated by money....

When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do.

I’m going on vacation, and I’m leaving my clone in charge. I’ll be gone, but I’ll be here.

The data is brought before the commission. Only the commission has the authority to change the listing of a species,

However, the Turnpike Authority will certainly work with the administration and the Legislature on any proposals that may benefit the state.

We had it on very good authority from figures who ought to know, the governor and a congressman, that those miners were alive, and we reported it. And as soon as we knew otherwise, we...

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Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of survivors. One of the standard objections to qualitative research is that...

…if you’re an artist, you’ve submitted to authority…

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is...

My master then, assuming he is solitary, in my image, wishes me well, poor devil, wishes my good, and if he does not seem to do very much in order not to be disappointed it...

They should rethink the entire flood protection system of New Orleans. It is a real hodgepodge of authority. If there was a coordinated effort, more could be done with less money.

There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither counting nor measuring can however be the most fundamental processes...

All slots belong to the Airports Authority of India and the authority on needs of a public service allocate these slots and that also goes for parking bays. The question is whether this could be...

Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see...

Those in authority within institutions and social structures attempt to justify their rule by linking it, as if it were a necessary consequence, with moral symbols, sacred emblems, or legal formulae which are widely believed...

If ever you feel like an animal among men, be a lion.

No, I did not.

Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.

While we are the major donor … we are not the major source of finance for the Palestinian Authority.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

When your authority comes straight from God, shit always turns ugly.

Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.

…But if we are to say anything important, if fiction is to stay relevant and vibrant, then we have to ask the right questions. All art fails if it is asked to be representative—the purpose...

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

This many deaths scream (for) investigation by everyone with authority to do so.

He decided himself to leave the squad. If we called him back, we would lose authority without any guarantees that he would not repeat such an act.