Top 1200 Authority And Responsibility Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

His voice carried authority the way Ben & Jerry's carries calories.

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

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.

A white man of authority don't ever want to admit to someone of colour they was wrong.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance

Congress has the authority to authorize spending and investment to historically neglected and marginalized communities.

Some will say that I have an issue with authority, but I just like to question things.

Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.

I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.

Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

Justice has taken its course and the authority and legitimacy of the legal process must be respected.

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

When I'm around authority, I still feel like I'm 14 or 15 years old.

I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career.

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

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

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

When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.

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

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

Civil disobedience is a stimulation for the fighters and a challenge to the opponent, in the present instance, authority.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

You have the freedom, ability and authority to love your life. Just be you, then wait.

People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

When we ask we are owning our needs. Asking for love, comfort or understanding is a transaction between two people. You are saying: I have a need. It's not your problem. It's not your responsibility. You don't have to respond, but I'd like something from you. This frees the other person to connect with you freely and without obligation. When we own that our needs are our responsibility we allow others to love us because we have something to offer. Asking is a far cry from demanding. When we demand love, we destroy it.

I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.

What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people. That there are treaties; that textbooks in every school in America have a responsibility to tell the truth. An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. From that, our own people began to sense the pride.

We [americans] have earned the moral authority, at least compared to anybody else in the world.

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war...

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.

There should be no effort, consciously or otherwise, that will lead to the erosion of institutional credibility and authority.

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

We should understand the source of our authority and something of the keys that control its power.