Top 1200 Moral Authority Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In Kashmir, you need utmost cooperation between all centres of authority.

In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority.

Authority's for sharing only when the sharer is sure of his (or hers).

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

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.

I've studied kings, so I'm very aware of the feet of clay of authority.

Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children, containing fables and moral lessons. We're spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools. The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other man-made book.

I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert.

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

If there's anything mean in a feller, a litter authority will bring it out.

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

It is not enough these days to simply QUESTION AUTHORITY. You have to speak with it, too.

It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

The saving ordinance of baptism must be administered by one who has proper authority from God.

I think most Americans have an innate respect for the police and for their authority.

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

I'm a fan or naysayer like everyone else, not an authority of any kind.

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

You don't give God authority over your life. He has it, totally.

It's one of the guiding philosophies of my life - not fearing any authority on earth.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.

I wasn't good with authority, went to lots of schools, didn't like the fact that there was no autonomy.

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found

I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.

I've always respected the authority figures in my life, including my coaches.

It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of moral evaluation; "good/evil" is supposed always to trump any other form of evaluation, but that is an assumption, probably the result of the long history of the Christianisation and then gradual de-Christianisation of Europe, which one need not make. Evaluation need not mean moral evaluation, but might include assessments of efficiency, ... simplicity, perspicuousness, aesthetic appeal, and so on.

If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.

My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures.

If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.

Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other.

As Cuba's leader, Castro answered to no one and allowed no challenge to his authority.

In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.

Until we stand in a place where we have met God, we have no authority to change a Nation

When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

God only promises to bless the nation that recognizes His authority.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor.

The first foundation for the creation of authority is always provided by popularity.

Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority.

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.

I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

The price of maintaining membership in the establishment is unquestioning acceptance of authority.

True leaders respect and honor authority but are comfortable in its presence.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.

Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.