Top 1200 Moral Authority Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

In a world of dispersed authority, the battle for the truth will be won or lost with the employees.

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

As long as we are on firm moral ground, as long as we're caring about other people, these are legitimate worries. The minute that we start protecting our own interests in the name of these worries and saying, "Oh, we have to make sure that only Ford Motor Company manufactures cars, because we can't be sure that the cars in other countries are being made quite up to our point of view," we're economically off base, and, of course, we're moral hypocrites, too.

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

Lawful and settled authority is very seldom resisted when it is well employed.

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

A crucial turning point in that earlier history occurred when men and women of good will turned aside from the task of shoring up the Roman imperium and ceased to identify the continuation of civility and moral community with the maintenance of that imperium. What they set themselves out to achieve instead - often not recognizing fully what they were doing - was the construction of new forms of community within which the moral life could be sustained so that both morality and civility might survive the coming age of barbarism and darkness.

We are on strike against martyrdom—and against the moral code that demands it. We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another. We are on strike against the morality of cannibals, be it practiced in body or in spirit. We will not deal with men on any terms but ours—and our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others.

A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.

Wearing a hat confers undeniable authority over those without one.

A simple man with Scripture has more authority than the Pope or a council.

The Liberals have been pressing for the brief on the basis of which he said there was authority for war.

A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.

The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.

An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.

Just make sure your children hate authority and they'll do fine.

The exercise of authority over the same area by two States is a contradiction.

The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

We have a responsibility to ensure the Palestinian Authority is abiding by U.S. law with total transparency.

There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.

The authority to declare war rests in Congress, not in an out-of-control president.

I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man's ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.

It doesn't affect my authority if I change my stance on something. If I have to reconsider a decision, I will.

It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.

So long as the mental and moral instruction of man is left solely in the hands of hired servants of the public--let them be teachers of religion, professors of colleges, authors of books, or editors of journals or periodical publications, dependent upon their literary incomes for their daily bread, so long shall we hear but half the truth; and well if we hear so much. Our teachers, political, scientific, moral, or religious; our writers, grave or gay, are compelled to administer to our prejudices and to perpetuate our ignorance.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.