Authority Quotes - page 44

I do situations and make fun of authority and life. (Don Rickles)
They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life. View quote
Daryl Gates
The ultimate goal is to change Syria's behaviour on a variety of issues - on its interference in Lebanese internal affairs, on its support for Palestinian terrorist groups that oppose the Palestinian Authority, on, most importantly, acting as a land bridge between Iran and Hezbollah, where Hezbollah gets all its arms. View quote
Elliott Abrams
The enthronement of Christ over the minds of men is steadily going forward. His kingdom embraces the princes in the realm of mind. It embraces the nations of highest civilization. They are all beneath the cross. It is maintained by simple authority. Other mental monarchs rule by logic; Christ's word is law - it is satisfying to His subjects. His truth in the handsof His disciples, like the bread He broke upon the mountains, is an ample supply for the millions that gather at His table. View quote
Edward Thomson
Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today. View quote
Feisal Abdul Rauf
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like. View quote
Gail Simmons
Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions. View quote
Gustav Heinemann
A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority. View quote
Gary Hamel
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent. View quote
Gary Hamel
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. View quote
Gavyn Davies
Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe. (H. Rap Brown)
I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble. View quote
Hal Holbrook
Kate's Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy. View quote
Ilona Andrews
I gave him my hard stare. "You're a control freak and I fight all authority. And you want us to mate?” A wicked spark lit his eyes. "Many, many times. View quote
Ilona Andrews
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good. View quote
James Wolcott
Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more. View quote
Jill Abramson
I have gone to Albany constantly in my capacity as budget director, because I don't think the way the transit authority works with the City of New York is very appropriate. View quote
Joe Lhota
No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people. View quote
Joe Slovo
Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities must be promptly delivered to a federal law enforcement authority. View quote
John Culberson
I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution. View quote
John Engler
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate. (John Jay Hooker)
The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak. View quote
John Lahr
Many young men in the 1960s and 1970s came to reject some of the traditional ideas about manhood that many of their fathers tried to pass down - like unquestioning respect for authority even when that might mean killing and dying for questionable or unjust causes such as the Vietnam War. View quote
Jackson Katz
I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? View quote
John Mellencamp
Do I think it's OK to fight authority as long as you're only talking about the high school teacher? No. View quote
John Mellencamp