Top 1200 Moral Authority Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.

It's very brave going from a position of authority to one where you are an apprentice.

Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.

Being an English major prepares you for impersonating authority.

New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

There are very few critics who have historical context or authority.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

Hungry men have no respect for law, authority or human life.

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

Question authority; but, raise your hand first.

Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.

Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

Kids have this resistance to listening to adults and authority, period.

In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.

The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.

Think for yourself. Know what you're doing. Question authority.

I've always been a tilter of lances against authority.

Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

Authority is the assumption that someone else knows better than you.

Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

The Palestinian Authority has become the biggest terror body in the world.

I was brought up to question authority, and thank God for that.

Defiance, not obedience, is the American's answer to overbearing authority.

Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.

Totalitarian regimes produce a culture and a moral code that is totally different from what happens in a democracy. There are two moral categories in a communist society: honest men and bad men. The "honest" ones resist compromising or collaborating with the regime, while the "bad" are the persecutors and collaborators. You can choose to be on one side or the other, but there is nothing in between. In a normal society, other factors can define who you are. You can be a good worker, sociable, tough, generous, tolerant, collaborative, friendly.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

"True expertise is the most potent form of authority."

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

My culture and my language have the right to exist, and no one has the authority to dismiss that.

The Authority has the power to turn everyone against me, and they have.

The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul.

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.

... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority

Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority.

Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.

When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.

Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.