Top 1200 Moral Authority Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet.

I've always had trouble with authority.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

Physical violence is the basis of authority.

Authority to heal is given from on high.

Fish are not the best authority on water.

You can think too highly of your interpretations of Scripture, but you cannot think too highly of Scriptures interpretation of itself. You can exaggerate your authority in handling the Scriptures, but you cannot exaggerate the Scriptures authority to handle you. You can use the word of God to come to wrong conclusions, but you cannot find any wrong conclusions in the word of God.

Respect authority while questioning it.

The Founders deliberately limited presidential authority.

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

... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

Authority is always built on service and sacrifice.

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

Self-possession is the backbone of authority.

To resist him that is set in authority is evil

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

You have authority over every storm you can sleep in

I write because I have authority from life to do so.

[Prudence] is the virtue of that part of the intellect [the calculative] to which it belongs; and . . . our choice of actions will not be right without Prudence any more than without Moral Virtue, since, while Moral Virtue enables us to achieve the end, Prudence makes us adopt the right means to the end.

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

I really rebel against authority.

The highest duty is to respect authority.

All human beings are moral beings. So, certainly there are alliances. We are in the countries, that are secular states, and we obey its laws. I think we must recognize that common moral base. But in alliances we must always be careful just of what level the alliance is perceived. I will go and lecture to an atheist society, for example, but I will not lecture for them, because I am not an atheist. You see the difference.

The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science." ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'où découlent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identité, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensée; il en découle les normes logiques qui régissent la pensée dans le domaine de la science.")

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Authority is never without hate.

Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

Think for yourself and question authority.

I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

I'm a daredevil. I'm not much for authority or rules.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.

For nearly a century, the moral relativism of science has given faith-based religion--that great engine of ignorance and bigotry--a nearly uncontested claim to being the only universal framework for moral wisdom. As a result, the most powerful societies on early spend their time debating issues like gay marriage when they should be focused on problems like nuclear proliferation, genocide, energy security, climate change, poverty, and failing schools.

Nothing overshadows truth so much as authority.

Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.

The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill.

Authority must be respected and chosen wisely.

The past has always been the handmaid of authority.

Authority does not equal competency.

But my patience isn't limitless... unlike my authority.

Power without authority is tyranny.

Authority and example lead the world.

Mouths talk without authority sometimes.

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

Authority is conferred by position, not character.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

The insistence on truthfulness does not disturb the freedom of the individual. The social obligation implied in Satyagraha turns the freedom of the individual into moral freedom. An atheist is free to say or to do what he likes, provided he does what he says and says what he does. So, in the context of social relations, the freedom of the individual is moral freedom.

Authority forgets a dying king.

The EPA has a history of overreaching its authority.

Creation implies authority in the sense of originator.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk.

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

Authority figures always attract trouble

No authority is higher than reality.

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