Top 1200 Authority And Responsibility Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

You have a responsibility as a locally elected deputy, but you also have a responsibility as the head of government.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

We're going to protect and honor the Constitution, and I don't have the authority to set it aside.... If I had the authority to set it aside, this would be a dangerous government, and I wouldn't respect it.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

For all the textbook reasons - any individual's reading of a photograph is preceded by the evidential authority of the medium. You have the literalness of a glass on a table - and at the same time of that evidential authority that you can't get around, there is the possibility of universalizing the subject - of getting the whole world into the picture.

I love playing real people. It's a huge challenge and responsibility which I take on board and which I relish. It also scares me to death. Give me a totally fictional character and I don't have the same sort of responsibility. If, though, I play Sigmund Freud or Robert Maxwell or whoever then there is a responsibility.

I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

The modern world detests authority but worships relevance. Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both authority and relevance, and that the secret of both is Jesus Christ

You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.

We're talking about the responsibility, my responsibility according to the Syrian constitution that said we have to defend ourselves.

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.

I really believe that we have a responsibility, almost a sacred responsibility, to the animals that share this planet with us.

When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.

The price of LEADERSHIP is RESPONSIBILITY....and part of that responsibility is to STAY POSITIVE whether you feel like it or not.

It takes spiritual authority to bless others. Many Christians say, "God bless you," but one clearly senses that although the words express a kind wish, they lack real spiritual authority.

If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

To be honest, when a manger is sacked, for me it's also the responsibility of the players. We have to take responsibility for it - it's not only the manager and the staff.

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.

There is no more important responsibility than protecting human health and the environment. It is a responsibility I take very seriously.

We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority.

The modern susceptibility to conformity and obedience to authority indicates that the truth endorsed by authority is likely to be accepted as such by a majority of people, who are innately obedient to authority. This obedience-truth will then become a consensus-truth accepted by many individuals unable to stand alone against the majority. In this way, the truth promulgated by the propaganda system - however irrational - stands a good chance of becoming the consensus, and may come to seem self-evident common sense.

I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.

Now I'm his dad, I live for [my son]. I have a responsibility. It's a big responsibility.

The responsibility which rests upon man is proportional to the ability which he possesses and the opportunity which he faces. Perhaps that responsibility is no greater for him than was that of Notharctus or Eohippus or a trilobite, each in his own day, but because of man's unique abilities it is the greatest responsibility that has ever rested upon any of the earth's offspring.

An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity.

I was given the opportunity to run a business, but on that very same day, I understood that it comes with a lot of responsibility, and responsibility comes at a price.

I feel that anybody who addresses himself to children has a responsibility, and that responsibility is to make available to children the very best that has ever been produced and to sustain the distinction of what has been produced. Everybody in the popular entertainment field or in the popular arts has a responsibility.

I don't love the idea of the responsibility falling on the manager. That just adds to their in-game responsibility.

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take responsibility for your genetics.

I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

The best way to develop responsibility in people is to give them responsibility.

I think parenting is a huge responsibility. It was in my time when I was growing up and there still continues to be that responsibility.

I've been raised and taught to believe that privilege should lead to responsibility - in fact to greater responsibility.

My responsibility is to make a film and find my dramatic language; I don't have any political or social responsibility.

You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.

When someone else makes a mistake, it is their responsibility to correct it, but it is your responsibility to handle how you feel about it.

The U.K. government has a responsibility to keep secrets in some circumstances. It also has a responsibility not to abuse that power for other purposes.

Questioning authority can hardly be called our national pastime. We even make a philosophy out of fear. Fatalism, destiny, karma... are the favourite cultural holes we hide in when authority flogs us. And what's our tragedy.

Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question.

If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

All real difficulty stems from no responsibility. Full responsibility is not fault; it is recognition of being cause.

The Senate has a constitutional responsibility to fill vacancies on the Supreme Court, and I take that responsibility very seriously.

What many students most want from college, although they would never admit it, is an authority structure. There is a demand for an authority which they can then reject; they want to be told what to do, so they can disobey. It is a textbook case of bad faith, a flight from freedom.

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.

There is a responsibility that goes with winning the Nobel Prize, and the responsibility is that if you have a forum, you should use it wisely.

Influence is not the same as authority. Authority can be abused by influence gives.

When you are a journalist, you have a big responsibility towards your audience and it is important to respect that responsibility.

As footballers we have a certain responsibility. We have the responsibility to talk about things.

Priesthood is the means whereby the Lord acts through men to save souls. One of the defining features of the Church of Jesus Christ, both anciently and today, is His authority. There can be no true Church without divine authority.

I'm really a nightmare for the fashion designer because I take away all of his authority, and I become the authority, and I turn him into my assistant. You could say I intervene, and I intervene in a very determining way in all the aspects that have to do with the visual construction of the film.

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.