Top 1200 Moral Authority Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

What sets Christian spiritual activity apart from all other religions is that they have knowledge of Christ as their goal; not moral perfection (although you will become more moral), not tranquility (although your life will be remarkably more peaceful). And because of the grace you have in Christ, the disciplines will do nothing to make you more accepted by the Father. You cannot be more accepted than you already are in Christ, since He has already done it all for you!

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

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral character intact.

Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.

I've never been any good with authority.

I am now speaking of rights under the Constitution, and not of moral or religious rights. I do not discuss the morals of the people of Missouri, but let them settle that matter for themselves. I hold that the people of the slaveholding States are civilized men as well as ourselves, that they bear consciences as well as we, and that they are accountable to God and their posterity and not to us. It is for them to decide therefore the moral and religious right of the slavery question for themselves within their own limits.

Obedience to authority saves many skins

All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people.

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

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.

By punishing men of talent we confirm their authority.

People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

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

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

Great leaders gain authority by giving it away.

Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

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

I consider myself an authority on drinking beer.

We do literature a real disservice if we reduce it to knowledge or to use, to a problem to be solved. If literature solves problems, it does so by its own inexhaustibility, and by its ultimate refusal to be applied or used, even for moral good. This refusal, indeed, is literature's most moral act. At a time when meanings are manifold, disparate, and always changing, the rich possibility of interpretation--the happy resistance of the text to ever be fully known and mastered--is one of the most exhilarating products of human culture.

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

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

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

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

There is a form of poetic and esthetic and moral genius necessary to make philosophical issues truly incandesce for students, and even though I indeed had some world-class professors myself when I went through the curriculum, I rarely saw such gnosic or concretist/poetic passion among them. I am not speaking of broad histrionics or melodramatic delivery, but rather a moral investment of concern, of loving delight and pathos in exposing one's consciousness to the full horrific and magnificent implications of the materials.

Art made tongue-tied by authority.

I always grew up with, 'Question authority.'

Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.

Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak

If you delegate authority, you will build leaders.

Example acquires tenfold authority when it speaks from the grave.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Even while lying, you'll be believed if you speak with authority.

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.

The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

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

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government.

The president has the authority to end this dragnet surveillance immediately

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Almost all the opinions we have are taken on authority and on credit.

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

I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a new moral dedication in America, or we're going to lose the struggle for that moral renewal, throw away the basic principles on which our life and civilization is based, and head toward a new century that will make the 20th century look like a dress rehearsal for evil.

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

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

Of course, I'd love to be regarded as a voice of authority.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

It was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war waged against states fighting for their indepdence into a war waged against states fighting for the maintenance and extension of slavery...and the world, it might be hoped, would see it as a moral war, not a political; and the sympathy of nations would begin to run for the North, not for the South.

Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

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

Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.