Top 524 Authorities Quotes & Sayings

If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.

In a world of businessmen and financial intermediaries who aggressively seek profit, innovators will always outpace regulators; the authorities cannot prevent changes in the structure of portfolios from occurring. What they can do is keep the asset-equity ratio of banks within bounds by setting equity-absorption ratios for various types of assets. If the authorities constrain banks and are aware of the activities of fringe banks and other financial institutions, they are in a better position to attenuate the disruptive expansionary tendencies of our economy.

Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment when officials informed President Bush the Holland Tunnel was safe. Bush then thanked the Dutch authorities for all their help.

I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.

I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see and understand because they keep ignoring the rights of their citizens ... and at this stage there is no other way to affect change, because the authorities have taken hostage of the media, so perhaps this boycott can be a symbol of criticism being voiced.

Authorities act with themselves in mind. Leaders act with others in mind. Authorities take. Leaders give. Authorities die. Leaders live on.

Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!

Walesa was a national hero, a true icon. The vast majority of Poles didn't believe a word the authorities said. They took everything the official media said about Walesa to be a manipulation by the Communist authorities.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices.

I will be writing to the relevant authorities to complain but I'm wasting my breath.

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

Theocratic and military authorities share one thing: they have no sense of humour.

I was just an ordinary student. I'd always gotten along with authorities quite well.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

This democracy... The elections in Iraq were held despite the American opposition. It was the will of the Iraqi people and the religious authorities. [The elections] were the result of pressure by Ayatollah Sistani, by the Iraqi religious authorities, and by the fighting forces in Iraq on America. They left the US no choice but to allow the elections.

We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

I have no political issues that I need to seek central authorities' advice on.

The U.K.'s reputation as a business destination will suffer if its authorities cannot be relied on to enforce the law.

If you are a parent, if you are an educator, there are very many good and powerful reasons to take children onto the Internet, but you have to be involved with them-you cannot expect government authorities or industry authorities or other people to do your job for you, and that is to help guard your children against some of these things that are occurring out there.

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

If you want to plan a revolution, you never do it in public - the authorities show up and arrest everyone.

If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

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 no authorities; at most, there are experts.

In the case of a meltdown, the regulatory authorities may find themselves obliged to step in to preserve the integrity of the system. It is in that light that the authorities have both a right and an obligation to supervise and regulate derivative instruments.

The problem is that when you grow absolutely certain that all authorities are corrupt, then that would include the Palestinian authorities as well.

Abu Mazen has deprived himself of all the practical authorities of government.

Today, Church policy in Ireland is to report allegations of abuse to the civil authorities. It recognises the Gardai and H.S.E. as those with responsibility for investigating such allegations and that any Church investigation should not take place until the investigation by the civil authorities has been completed.

My administration will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the States and to the people as equally incorporated with and essential to the success of the general system;... to keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics-that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorities - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself.

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

I have great respect for the authorities.

The life before '68 was very different from the life after '68. Before '68, our days were full of authoritarian moments. There were authorities everywhere. In fact, the movement of '68 was young people against their authorities, children against their parents. And that remained. The most important thing of all, the thing that lasted, was the first feminist movement and the position of women in society. That completely changed and that was very, very important.

I do not want to give the state and the authorities the right to ban things on the Internet - no ifs.

The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

When sports gets involved with petty politics from authorities and co-athletes, it becomes a nasty game.

I don't think the authorities realise how much fans in general invest in their clubs.

Well, I think In Love and War, which had a wonderful performance by Sandy, Sandra Bullock, who the authorities and, the supposed authorities, in cinema didn't want to know about.

We are vested with significant authorities, and it is our obligation as public servants to ensure that these authorities are exercised with objectivity and integrity. Anything less falls short of the FBI's duty to the American people.

Saudi authorities must launch a campaign about the safety of female pilgrims and the determination of the authorities to ensure every woman's safety.

Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

Federal authorities do not have the manpower or the resources to protect America's international borders

We will end the sanctuary cities that have resulted in so many needless deaths. Cities that refuse to cooperate with federal authorities will not receive taxpayer dollars, and we will work with Congress to pass legislation to protect those jurisdictions that do assist federal authorities.

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom.

I love Columbia, Missouri, if it wasn't for the authorities, I'd go back.

George Orwell was right. There's no greater genius as far as I'm concerned in terms of understanding human nature. I think that a lot of people just believe anything you tell them, and no matter what it is, they just go along with the program. They're perfectly happy to take their pill every day and do what they're told, and work and buy things, and work and buy things, and stay out of any complex emotional situations. And whatever the authorities tell them to do, they do, and whatever the authorities say is the truth, they believe is the truth.

Tapping of phones is a serious business and has to be authenticated by requisite authorities on valid grounds.

Even if you don't have the authorities - and frankly I didn't have the authorities for anything - if you take charge, people will follow.

In a sense Shapley's telling me that space was transparent, which I shouldn't have believed, illustrates a fundamental problem in science, believing what people tell you. Go and find it out for yourself. That same error has persisted in my life and in many other people's. Authorities are not always authorities on everything; they often cling to their own mistakes.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it's clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.