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Authority Quotes

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

Father Trouble Authority Always Had

That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.

Charles Babbage

Science Me Opinion Long Authority

What is the secret of Stalin's unquestioned strength? He controls every wheel and screw of the party machine, which is the source of authority and power in the Soviet Union.

Strength Power Party Wheel Authority

Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.

Blake Farenthold

Money Government Know Authority Over

You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively.

You Powerful Know Authority Reason

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.

Wilfred Burchett

Surrender Living Authority Whatever

I owe my dogs much - more than I can say - but they are not my 'companions' - as if we voluntarily chose to hang out together but none of us has authority over the others. I bought and/or acquired them. I own them. I am profoundly responsible for their care and well being.

Together I Am Care I Can Authority

When husbands and wives not only co-work but try to co-homemake, as post-feminist and well-intentioned as it is, out goes the clear delineation of spheres, out goes the calm of unquestioned authority, and of course, out goes the gratitude.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Gratitude Calm Authority Try Out

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.

Age Me Early Authority Always Hated

The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear.

Water Legal Authority Clean Water

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.

Power Government Authority Govern

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

Step Parent You Authority Will Eat

It's not necessarily the most compelling thing for a liberal like myself to be making an impassioned plea for the divine rights of kings and for observing the hierarchy of order, of class and authority.

Myself Kings Authority Class Rights

All wars come to an end, at least temporarily. But the authority acquired by the state hangs on; political power never abdicates.

Power End Political Authority Never

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Bryant H. McGill

Knowledge Control Enemy Authority

The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to stay.

People Authority Never Jewish Here

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.

Power America Authority Real Idea

A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.

Elfriede Jelinek

Work Woman Value Famous Authority

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

Think Authority Two Venture Been

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

Benjamin Watson

Rebel Sin Authority Reason Against

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

William Hedgcock Webster

Authority Will Use Appropriate

Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets are creating a new universal narrative that legitimises the authority of algorithms and Big Data.

Yuval Noah Harari

Data Creating New Authority Human

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

War You Back Authority Talk Come

The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.

Walker Stapleton

Leadership Authority Take Legislation

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