Quotes about Authority

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People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. — Martha Beck
AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in aut — Larry Kramer
The faith that stands on authority is not faith. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reli — Michael Ignatieff
After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the gover — Sheikh Hasina
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. — Thomas Hobbes
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. — Anne Bradstreet
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. — Jim Morrison
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and an — Robert Morgan
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
As I have said all along, for any trade promotion authority bill to gain my support, it must require strong, enforceable — Suzan DelBene
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. — Joseph Addison
Now a slave is not 'held' by any legal contract, obligation, duty, or authority, which the laws will enforce. He is 'hel — Lysander Spooner
The EPA has no legal authority to expand the definition of navigable waters under the Clean Water Act, as the Supreme Co — Paul Gosar
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today. — Feisal Abdul Rauf
God is the King. In him exists all legal authority. — Orson Pratt
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. — Michel Foucault