Authority Quotes - Page 33

• A more important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Democracy, Important, Quality

  "The United States". New York magazine, November 15, 1971.

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• A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kings, Office, Sovereign

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.200, 谷月社

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• Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Kings, Neighbor, Measles

  Ambrose Bierce (1996). “Poems of Ambrose Bierce”, p.62, U of Nebraska Press

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• That you cannot have Christian principles without Christ is becoming increasingly clear, because their validity as principles depends on Christ's authority.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Christian, Becoming, Principles

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• It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

  George Santayana

  Children, Memories, Husband

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.33, 谷月社

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• When it comes to holdouts, there's a presupposition that the player is some angry rebel who's defying authority and only cares about the money.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Player, Rebel, Care

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The Iranian leaders describe the American government exactly the way American analysts describe the Iranian one, as an opaque, factionalized system with competing power centers, over which the president exercises very limited authority.

  Ali Khamenei

  Exercise, Government, Leader

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I think people have got to understand when a murder is committed on British soil, when innocent people have been put at risk by the method that murder is committed then we expect authorities in other parts of the world to co-operate.

  Gordon Brown

  Thinking, People, Risk

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Men, Foolish Man, House

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• Arabs and their allies are conducting a total war against Israel. A total war means a war of lies. The PA [Palestinian Authority] promotes lies; lying in Islam is permitted.

  Manfred Gerstenfeld

  War, Lying, Mean

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

  Mark Durie

  Religious, Colonialism, World

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western way of life and is able to use the understanding, using legitimate Islamic sources to bring more scholarship to our way of life in the west. There's a need for that.

  Mark Durie

  Religious, Islamic, Understanding

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The first thing that has to be broken down is your relationship to authority. Your insecurity could possibly be the wedge that opens up your perspective on what you think is possible for you to do.

  Ross Bleckner

  Thinking, Broken, Perspective

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• Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ignorance, Stupidity, Obedience

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Affair, Individual

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that end, and is not forbidden by any particular provision of the Constitution, it may safely be deemed to come within the compass of the national authority.

  Alexander Hamilton

  May, Constitution, Compass

  Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank, 23 Feb. 1791

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• I repeat that in this sense the most splendid court in Christendom is provincial, having authority to consult about Transalpine interests only, and not the affairs of Rome. A prætor or proconsul would suffice to settle the questions which absorb the attention of the English Parliament and the American Congress.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Government, Rome, Attention

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1169, Delphi Classics

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• It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Practice, Moral, Influence

  Henry Steele Commager (1961). “The American Mind”

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• If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Demand, Hunted

  Androcles and the Lion preface (1913)

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• The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.

  Emma Goldman

  Regret, Father, Self

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• No mistake is more to be deplored than the conception that a system of morals and religion should derive any portion of its authority either from the circumstance of its novelty or its antiquity, that it should be judged excellent, not because it is reasonable or true, but because no person has ever thought of it before, or because it has been thought of from the beginning of time.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mistake, Novelty, Moral

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1988). “Shelley's Prose: Or the Trumpet of a Prophecy”

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• Like the actor, authority has faith in its false whiskers. But its deepest faith is in the human illusion. People will hang on to illusion as eagerly as life itself.

  Ben Hecht

  People, Actors, Have Faith

  "Perfidy". Book by Ben Hecht, 1961.

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• The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War because of the trenches, and the incompetence of the people on all fronts.

  Doris Lessing

  War, Thinking, People

  "A Notorious Life". Interview with Dwight Garner, www.salon.com. November 11, 1997.

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• People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level should be thus handled, and only delegated to a higher authority when necessary.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Roots, People, Levels

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.102, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I define democracy as control by the people. Slaves are those who allow others to control their lives. Insofar as people succeed in solving their problems fairly and efficiently at a grassroots level, they retain control over their lives. Insofar as they delegate their problem solving to a higher authority, they lose control over their lives.

  Peace Pilgrim

  People, Democracy, Levels

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.120, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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