Top 1200 Authority And Responsibility Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

One of the signs (you) displayed (said): QUESTION AUTHORITY. Comments or slogans of this nature cannot and will not be condoned.

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.

It's far from clear that restoring Christian social authority is an appropriate aim of politics in the first place.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.

I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.

Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.

I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!

Regardless of your race, religion or political affiliation, never hesitate to question those in authority.

I'm not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it's up to me, and I go straight to the audience.

To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.

Let's give the president some due here. They had a mess, and he fixed it, and they mobilized a lot of authority, and they did it.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability.

In 'The Force Awakens,' women as well as men are in positions of authority. And you don't have to work hard to do that - it's not a statement, it's the world.

It's no wonder there is a mad scramble for victim status on many campuses today. It confers authority and prestige.

Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.

The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways.

To be free people we must assume total responsibility for ourselves, but in doing so must possess the capacity to reject responsibility that is not truly ours. To be organized and efficient, to live wisely, we must daily delay gratification and keep an eye on the future; yet to live joyously we must also possess the capacity, when it is not destructive, to live in the present and act spontaneously. In other words, discipline itself must be disciplined. The type of discipline required to discipline discipline is what I call balancing.

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.

Anyone at any age is able to tell the story of his or her life with authority.

My team or I didn't enjoy any administrative authority in the creative role play for the Telugu version of 'Queen.'

If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

I tend to have this perverse reaction to authority and stress: I become more confident and clear when a challenge is enormous.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

There are ways to speak that can transform things, which has less to do with authority but is more about resourcefulness and ingenuity.

We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

I think having a healthy distrust of authority is a good thing, within certain parameters, obviously.

Authority in science exists to be questioned, since heresy is the spring from which new ideas flow.

He who has money, lives long: he who has authority, can do no wrong: he who has might, establishes right. Such is history! Ecce historia!

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

If the Pope spoke out with moral authority against violent Islam, I would be there cheering him on.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

My favorite job is Petro Poroshenko. I am happy with the authority and high status this gives me!

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid ... research and discussions ... with regard to the doctrine of evolution.

Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No.

For self-realization, a rebel demands a strong authority, a worthy opponent, God to his Lucifer.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

One thing is clear - demons know they must submit to the superior authority in the name of Jesus Christ!

I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.

The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.

My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product.

Insurgent, he says. Noun. A person who acts in opposition to the established authority, who is not necessarily regarded as a belligerent.

One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action

We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.