Top 1200 Authority And Responsibility Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

I wouldn't want to be anyone to usurp the authority of the WWE.

Laws that oppress people have no moral authority.

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

I took it really seriously... as serious as any actor could take a movie . I had so much fun doing movie Dragonball . But I take any part I do seriously because I feel a sense of responsibility to the young kids who have saved their money to go and see a movie. I feel it's my responsibility to make it the best I can, because I don't want to let anyone down.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

The only requirement of a fan or a patient is the surrender to authority.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Authority figures always attract trouble

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.

Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

The press . . . traditionally sides with authority and the establishment.

I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

A more appropriate expansion is the statement "it is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies" a transcript of a talk to a writers conference in Australia in 1996, where I had been asked to talk on "writers and intellectual responsibility" - a question that I said I found "puzzling," because I knew of nothing to say about it beyond truisms, though these were perhaps worth affirming because they are "so commonly denied, if not in words, then in consistent practice."

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.

Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

What we need is a government with authority but without authoritarianism.

"True expertise is the most potent form of authority."

Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

I consider myself an authority on drinking beer.

It (Lewinskygate) has...compromised his moral authority

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort to welfarism; that is, it must assume the responsibility for the people's welfare: their employment, their old age, their income, and the like. As this is done, man loses his wholeness; he is dispossessed of responsibility for self, the very essence of his manhood. The more dependent he becomes, the less dependable!

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

Authority is 20% given and 80% taken...so take it!

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.

Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.

Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

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

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

[Management] has authority only as long as it performs.

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

Mouths talk without authority sometimes.

I suppose if there's a set of genes I have, it's detesting authority.

I've always been a tilter of lances against authority.

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority.

The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people.

It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.