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

Once the stadium is occupied a good number of tragedies have arisen due to a breakdown in authority,

As a parent, you have authority because God calls you to be an authority in your child’s life. You have the authority to act on behalf of God. As a father or mother, you do...

contacts between the Palestinian Authority and the government of Israel.

Authority is by nothing so much strengthened and confirmed as by custom; for no man easily distrusts the things which he and all men have been always bred up to.

If you’ve written it yourself, it’s more authority over the piece. I think this is one of the most valuable experiences they will have educationally.

Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn’t just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else’s word for...

I am often described to my irritation as a ‘contrarian’ and even had the title inflicted on me by the publisher of one of my early books. (At least on that occasion I lived up...

Usually without realizing it, our ultimate peace starts and ends in the authority of God alone, which means the solution to living in joy, peace, and harmony with our fellow men has been here for...

Ballot papers do not define leaders. Leadership is defined by conviction, vision, passion and inspiration.

Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

… I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese; I would have to take care of it myself. This would be safer and also consistent with my own responsibility. The latter is the anarch’s ultimate...

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

These kinds of attacks harm the Palestinian interest, and we as an authority and government must move to stop it. We will not stop pursuing anyone who carries out such attacks.

But I knew something that Elena hadn’t. That the measure of a true queen didn’t lie in her magic. It had more to do with who she was, and what she was willing to give...

They’re all so much afraid of the Council that they’re not afraid of anything else.

We want to give the department real teeth to protect the public. This would give the federal government meaningful authority.

I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

There is no authority, there is no certain agency that monitors these types of offenders.

People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that some parents have such children or chanced that some have not! I am...

Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der zum Herrschen Geeignetste wäre, so ist es in unserer zeit naiv zu glauben, dass der demokratisch gewählte Machthaber der...

Be the one whose Lord is Jesus and who takes His words as a final authority without any thought of controversy. True believers follow Jehovah, not only for what He does, but specially for who...

Don’t give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero’s facade you will find a human being who makes human...

Milton’s learned vocabulary […] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintelligibility of the parents’ speech as heard by the child.

I did say that in-group, authority and purity are necessary for the maintenance of order, but I would never give them a blanket endorsement.

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.

Once the delegation is there it would also get in touch with the Israeli authority.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

The sign of a good leader is easy to recognize, though it is hardly ever seen. For the greatest leaders are those who share as equals in the trials and struggles, the demands and expectations,...

This day, the Government has no authority to reform the people; and the people have no authority the reform the Government.

more Palestinian Authority, not less.

All authority belongs to the people

PLENIPOTENTIARY, adj. Having full power. A Minister Plenipotentiary is a diplomatist possessing absolute authority on condition that he never exert it.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are...