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Authority Quotes

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Questions Serious Authority More

Authority forgets a dying king.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

King Authority Dying Forgets

If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the civic virtue and decency of the individual who holds the office.

Benjamin Wittes

Great Believe You Authority Virtue

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

William H. Seward

Law Constitution Authority Noble Our

Humanist thinkers such as Rousseau convinced us that our own feelings and desires were the ultimate source of meaning and that our free will was, therefore, the highest authority of all.

Yuval Noah Harari

Free Meaning Feelings Authority Will

Gandhi held no formal position of authority. Nor was there an organized army standing behind him. What he did have were his core beliefs and the audacity to speak truth to power.

Truth Power Speak Army Authority

Some people get turned on by my work, and it sells, but what drives me is the process of making it.

Speak Authority More Things Less

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

Authority Civil Rights Movement Come

I was good at embarrassing authority. It was fun. There's a fearlessness that goes along with being a kid.

Good Fun Authority Kid Being Along

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

Children Purpose Rebel Authority

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

Great People Think Authority I Think

From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority.

Power Childhood Face Authority Mixed

The federal government must retreat from its hyperactive involvement in areas traditionally under states' authority and refuse future temptations to regulate and legislate on every issue that happens to come to mind.

Future Government Mind Authority

The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.

Mother Queen Bee Looks Authority

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Nadine Gordimer

Sacrifice Moral Authority Like

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

Observation Authority Experiment

While we must condemn any misuse of their authority, let's not forget that, by far, police are fulfilling their duty to protect and serve.

Police Forget Authority Duty Protect

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Health Authority Public Health Modern

Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.

Richard N. Haass

Political Nationalism Authority Tool

I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.

John Patrick Shanley

Man Me Back Uniform Authority Saw

I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

Boss I Am Think Look Play Authority

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

Believe Manners Dignity Authority

It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.

John Jay Hooker

Law Advice Congress Authority Bench

For me, making my intent clear to the batsman before he stamps his authority is important. Playing with his mind is a way of attacking rather than setting attacking fields.

Harbhajan Singh

Mind Me Important Authority Way

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