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Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

Quotes by Jill Abramson

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

Quotes by Jesus Christ

The Government Securities Act gave the Treasury Department some rulemaking authority over all government securities brokers and dealers. But the act also required these firms to register with the SEC.

Quotes by Jerome Powell

It is clear that IDEA '97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.

Quotes by Jeff Sessions

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I support negotiating authority to lower prescription drug prices.

Quotes by Jan Schakowsky

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

Quotes by James MacGregor Burns

We have to give value to authority. We have to give value to office, being in office, holding office.

Quotes by James Hillman

Israeli Arabs have more political rights than any other Arabs in the Middle East, including their compatriots in the Palestinian Authority.

Quotes by Jack Schwartz

I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.

Quotes by J. K. Simmons

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

Quotes by J. M. Roberts

I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.

Quotes by Isamu Akasaki

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

Quotes by Hugh Lofting

And revolutions always mean the breakdown of old authority.

Quotes by Hu Shih

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Quotes by Herbert Read

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

Quotes by Gustav Heinemann

Ideologically, the pursuit of science is not that different from the ideology that goes into punk rock. The idea of challenging authority is consistent with what I have been taught as a scientist.

Quotes by Greg Graffin

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Quotes by Golda Meir

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

Quotes by Gloria Steinem

It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

Quotes by Gerrit Smith

In revolutions authority remains with the greatest scoundrels.

Quotes by Georges Jacques Danton

There must be an authority at the state level to coordinate flood mitigation projects in upstream watersheds. Additionally, this state entity could bring together multiple stakeholders to benefit all communities in the region.

Quotes by George P. Bush

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

Quotes by George Carlin

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

Quotes by George Bancroft

I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.

Quotes by Gene Hackman

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

Quotes by Gary Hamel

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Quotes by Galileo Galilei

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

Quotes by Fredrik Bajer

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

Quotes by Frank A. Clark

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

Quotes by Ferdinand Marcos

Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

Quotes by Federica Montseny

Authority is never without hate.

Quotes by Euripides

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Quotes by Erich Fromm

California is among several states that already have fought their way out from under partisan gerrymandering by taking line-drawing authority away from the Legislature.

Quotes by Eric Swalwell

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

Quotes by Eric B.

I consider myself an authority on drinking beer.

Quotes by Eric Bischoff

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

Quotes by Emil Cioran

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Quotes by Elena Kagan

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

Quotes by Eleanor Catton

Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.

Quotes by Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.

Quotes by Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

Quotes by E. L. Doctorow

I've always hated authority from an early age. And authority have always hated me.

Quotes by Dr. Dre

I do situations and make fun of authority and life.

Quotes by Don Rickles

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Quotes by Denis Diderot

The double bind lowers its boom on women in positions of authority, so those who haven't yet risen to such positions have not yet felt its full weight.

Quotes by Deborah Tannen

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.

Quotes by David Souter

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

Quotes by David Baker

Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

Quotes by David A. Bednar

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

Quotes by David A. Bednar

The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to stay.

Quotes by Danny Danon

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

Quotes by Craig Venter

I urge Congress to quickly take up and pass trade promotion authority so we can conclude a TPP agreement. Our position in the world depends on it.

Quotes by Cory Gardner

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

Quotes by Clare Short

The European Union needs a comprehensive, continent-wise, transnational counter-terrorism center that has the authority to track threats across borders.

Quotes by Chris Murphy

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

Quotes by Chief Joseph

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.

Quotes by Charles Hodge

Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

Quotes by Charles Hodge

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Quotes by Charles de Gaulle

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Quotes by Charles de Gaulle

The laws receive their force and authority from an oath of fidelity, either tacit or expressed, which living subjects have sworn to their sovereign, in order to restrain the intestine fermentation of the private interest of individuals.

Quotes by Cesare Beccaria

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

Quotes by Butch Trucks

We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

Quotes by Bret Stephens

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

Quotes by Boris Johnson

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

Quotes by Billy Graham

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

Quotes by Benjamin Tucker

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

Quotes by Benjamin Watson

Sin is the reason we abuse our authority.

Quotes by Benjamin Watson

I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.

Quotes by Benjamin Wittes

The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but for counterintelligence probes pursued under the president's authority to conduct foreign policy.

Quotes by Benjamin Wittes

President Obama is perhaps the most ideologically-motivated president in American history. But according to the ultimate authority, Barack Obama, he's a mere pragmatist.

Quotes by Ben Shapiro

The court's authority must be clear, and it must not blatantly intervene in the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.

Quotes by Ayelet Shaked

Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.

Quotes by Asma Jahangir

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority.

Quotes by Arthur Keith

The proper balance between individual liberty and central authority is a very ancient problem.

Quotes by Arthur Keith

Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.

Quotes by Arleigh Burke

A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.

Quotes by Ari Melber

In 1992, I was an official of the Angolan regime. I was appointed by that country to oversee the organization of the raw diamond market and responsible for the governmental authority that later controlled this market.

Quotes by Arcadi Gaydamak

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions.

Quotes by Antony Jay

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

Quotes by Anohni

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Quotes by Anne Bradstreet

There's something called, 'resolution authority,' which gives the government the power to takeover a failing bank - something they didn't have pre-Lehman Brothers.

Quotes by Andrew Ross Sorkin

The story of rural India is a lack of empowerment: perceived impotence. Villagers are being constantly threatened by an authority. The Bolero symbolizes empowerment.

Quotes by Anand Mahindra

A Western upbringing tends to stress questioning authority, which is always asking why, why, why.

Quotes by Amy Chua

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

Quotes by Allen Tate

Authority forgets a dying king.

Quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

Quotes by Alfred Noyes

I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

Quotes by Alex Kapranos

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

Quotes by Alan Thicke

Under the law, the FCC does not have the authority to revoke a license of a broadcast station based on the content of a particular newscast.

Quotes by Ajit Pai

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Quotes by Aeschylus

It won't be a question of how well-trained or well-equipped the army is but one of the authority it serves.

Quotes by Adnan Pachachi

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

Quotes by Adam Cohen

Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

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