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Authority Quotes

All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

Manal al-Sharif

Drive Country Said Authority Why

Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous.

Great Ridiculous Authority Boring

I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself.

Daily Me Trying Authority Actor Up

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

Respect New Authority Level Above

Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

Design Employees Year New Authority

Be the authority on your product/company. You should know more about your product than anyone else alive if you're writing a blog about it.

Writing You Alive Know Authority

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Ibrahim Babangida

Believe Facts Living Authority Need

As I got older, I was able to articulate why I was rebelling against authority - because their motives were much more forceful and hurtful than I had ever thought.

Thought Authority Why More Against

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

Authority Way See Through Who Nor

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

Ferdinand Marcos

Government Mercy Authority Students

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I've been there.

God Me Speak Now Authority Cancer

I think it's appropriate that we simplify, clarify and strengthen, so instead of this nebulousness, we have clarity and authority invested in teachers once more.

Think Clarity Authority Teachers

I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

Authority Question Always Up Grew

We still are pestered by two parties: the aristocratic, which is panting for a counter revolution, and the factious, which aims at the division of the empire and destruction of the authority - and perhaps of the lives - of the reigning branch, both of which parties are fomenting troubles.

Marquis de Lafayette

Revolution Authority Division Empire

The Founders deliberately limited presidential authority.

Michael Beschloss

Authority Founders Deliberately

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

Hate Free Authority Get Our

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

People Me Authority Always Call

Central authority is bad. The bias should be for freedom. And without a central authority, there are lots of little authorities, and we learn which ones to trust.

Freedom Trust Learn Bad Authority

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

Day Law Lost Now Authority Before

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Stanley Milgram

Responsibility Authority Sense Most

The transcendent gift of the Holy Ghost, along with membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is bestowed by confirmation, by the laying on of hands by those having priesthood authority.

Gift Church Hands Authority Ghost

We need to stop the erosion of parental authority.

Stop Authority Need Erosion Parental

We are the only authority on what is good for us. Once we see this, we feel an enormous peace and freedom.

Good Freedom Peace Feel Authority

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

People Philosophy Authority Modern

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