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Authority Quotes

A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.

Justice Accomplish Vote Authority

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

Feet You Authority Teeth Going Well

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Stress Authority Why Always Asking

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

James MacGregor Burns

Revolution Violence Authority Class

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

Stuart Symington

Business Responsibility New Authority

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Authority Mean Old Always Breakdown

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

Authority Order Got Respected

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Stop Skin Citizen Authority Must

One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.

Robert A. Heinlein

Science History Done Authority Never

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Authority Who Everybody Takes

Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.

Freedom Great You Authority Human

Bishops may often feel but cannot express the sting and throb of submitting themselves to Roman commands because the latter are always presented as tests of their loyalty to the Pope and of their absolute acceptance of his teaching authority, or Magisterium.

Loyalty Acceptance Feel Authority

We have seen a degradation from the highest levels of authority politically in this nation, including through the department of justice, for the rule of law.

Justice Law Rule Of Law Authority

Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.

David A. Bednar

Today Men Church Authority True

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Michel Foucault

Freedom Authority More Conscience

The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.

Age Rest Church Body Authority Over

I think evangelicals would do better if they concentrated less on bolstering the formal authority of the Scripture - which I certainly would want to affirm - and more on displaying how biblical texts can shape lives in salutary ways, how they are fruitful texts, how they are texts one can live according to.

Live Think Better Want Authority

You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

Responsibility You Authority Cannot

Now, we can't stop the devil from coming against us, but we can overcome him each time - if we exercise the authority of Jesus and decide not to put up with him.

Time Devil Exercise Stop Authority

We live in cautious times where HR has a very inflated sense of authority over companies.

Live Authority Over Where Sense

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Morality Say Authority Ground Fact

He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection.

Great Mistake Better Authority Force

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

Life Fun Authority Make Situations

If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.

People Performance You Authority Way

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