Authority Quotes - Page 3

• Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

  Paul Weyrich

  Teacher, Parent, Cameras

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

  Kim Young-sam

  Law, President, Lost

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• God is the King. In him exists all legal authority

  Orson Pratt

  Kings

  Orson Pratt (2015). “The Kingdom of God, part 1”, p.11, Latter-day Strength

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• Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?

  William Shakespeare

  Mark, Minnows, Absolutes

  'Coriolanus' (1608) act 3, sc. 1, l. 88

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• Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just.

  William Shakespeare

  Heaven, Weight, Pay

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Measure for Measure”, p.42, Penguin

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• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  Oscar Wilde

  Monarchs

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.62, Oscar Wilde

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• After so many cases of terror attacks related to Islamic militancy remaining unresolved in the last few years, the government has no moral authority to stay in power.

  Sheikh Hasina

  Islamic, Terror Attacks, Government

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• 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.

  Norm Dicks

  Years, Aggravation, Design

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• I created no authority that wasn't already there under the constitution.

  John Engler

  Constitution

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• The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.

  Orson Pratt

  Government, Order, Kingdoms

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”, p.21

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• 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.

  John Roberts

  Taxation, Levels, Cannons

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• One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun

  Elmer Davis

  America, Done, Fields

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• Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

  Lee Greenwood

  America, Higher

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• I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

  Edith Sitwell

  Taken, Fire, Discipline

  Edith Sitwell's remarks on converting to Roman Catholicism at the age of 67, in news reports, August 15, 1955.

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• I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Mean, People, Hierarchy

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• Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Dog, Office

  William Shakespeare, Jay L. Halio (1994). “The First Quarto of King Lear”, p.107, Cambridge University Press

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

  Antony Jay

  Responsibility, Decision, Matter

  Antony Jay (2009). “How to Run a Meeting”, p.5, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.

  William Shakespeare

  Patient, Be Patient, Wells

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Dolby (1872). “Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible Passages, Illustrative of the Various Passions, Affections and Emotions of the Human Mind”, p.25

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• Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers

  Hanan Ashrawi

  Strong, Power, Rights

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• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

  Hannah Arendt

  Inspirational, Age, Ambitious

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• I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love, just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Luck, Havens

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Love & Marriage”

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• I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, God, Religious

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• Authority is never without hate.

  Euripides

  Hate, Despise

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1958). “The complete Greek tragedies”

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• New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.

  Euripides

  Literature, Faces, Accustomed

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “The Complete Greek Tragedies”

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• No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Farewell, Childhood, Made

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