Authority Quotes - page 12

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special. (Irving R. Kaufman)
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. View quote
Maya Lin
I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem. View quote
Melissa Marr
I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority. View quote
Michael Baden
I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't. View quote
Moon Unit Zappa
The international community and Israel have the same opinion regarding the Hamas government. We don't say we are going to boycott it forever. We say the Hamas government must abide by the obligations the Palestinian Authority has signed. View quote
Moshe Katsav
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed. View quote
Moshe Katsav
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill. View quote
Norm Dicks
Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so. View quote
Pete du Pont
Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them. View quote
Robert Metcalfe
Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back. (Robert Morgan)
The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant. View quote
Sherrod Brown
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings. View quote
Sibel Edmonds
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it. View quote
Steve Chabot
The criminal justice system should have the authority to determine the immigration status of all criminals, regardless of race or ethnicity, and report illegal immigrants who commit crimes to federal authorities. View quote
Susana Martinez
I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks. View quote
Sebastian Thrun
For those men who, sooner or later, are lucky enough to break away from the pack, the most intoxicating moment comes when they cease being bodies in other men's command and find that they control their own time, when they learn their own voice and authority. View quote
Theodore White
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few. View quote
Van Wyck Brooks
But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others. View quote
Vince McMahon
In other words, the Church acknowledges Science as the higher authority. View quote
Wilhelm Ostwald
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. (William Greider)
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you. View quote
Zebulon Pike
[R]eal Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
It is of great importance to observe that the character of every man is, in some degree, formed by his profession. A man of sense may only have a cast of countenance that wears off as you trace his individuality, whist the weak, common man has scarcely ever any character, but what belongs to the body; at least, all his opinions have been so steeped in the vat consecrated by authority, that the faint spirit which the grape of his own vine yields, cannot be distinguished. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft