Authority Quotes - Page 35

• To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

  Mark Twain

  World, Fine Things, Enormous

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.56, Createspace Independent Pub

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• Only God can provide us with an eternal perspective and speak to us with absolute and final authority.

  R. C. Sproul

  Perspective, Finals, Speak

  R. C. Sproul (2009). “Knowing Scripture: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The power of creating new funds upon new objects of taxation, by its own authority, would enable the national government to borrow as far as its necessities might require.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Government, Creating, Taxation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2017). “The Federalist Papers (Including Declaration of Independence & United States Constitution): Written by the Founding Fathers in Favor of the Constitution – Arguments that Created the Modern America”, p.150, Madison & Adams Press

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• Everyone has an equal and absolute right to sovereignty over his own body, his own property, and his own life, and to pursue his own happiness in any way that he chooses. No one has the authority to grant rights to anyone else, because human beings already possess all natural rights at birth. These rights include both personal and economic freedoms, and the only way they can be lost is if someone takes them away by force. The only right that an individual does not naturally possess is the right to violate someone else's liberty.

  Robert Ringer

  Rights, Liberty, Doe

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• 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.

  Elliott Abrams

  Issues, Iran, Land

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• I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Strong, Disrespect, Gravity

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• People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Believe, Book

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield

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• If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

  Cyprian

  Murder, Crime, States

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• I testify that in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is found the priesthood authority to administer the ordinances by which we can enter into binding covenants with our Heavenly Father in the name of His Holy Son. I testify that God will keep His promises to you as you honor your covenants with Him.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• Leadership is not a matter of authority, it is a matter of influence. A true leader teaches others to understand more, motivates them to be more and inspires them to become more.

  Michael Josephson

  Leader, Inspire, Matter

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• Of all the opportunities my priesthood authority affords, there is none grander than the privilege of being in one of our temples and representing the Master in officiating in the marriage of two of His worthy, righteous children.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Children, Opportunity, Two

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• The last image created in verse four of this hymn, ["Come, O Thou Glorious King"] that of the promised Messiah coming into his temple, seems appropriate for the day when Jesus was in the Jerusalem temple, teaching and establishing his authority. As with the Triumphal Entry, his actions then seem but a foretaste of even greater fulfillment when he comes again in glory. Just as the early Latter-day Saints were reassured by the promised return of the Savior, so we too can look forward with faith to his return as King.

  Eric D. Huntsman

  Jesus, Kings, Teaching

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• The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.

  Erwin Rommel

  Men, Giving, Inches

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• One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Special, Privilege, Claims

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• In mathematics we do not appeal to authority, but rather you are responsible for what you believe.

  Richard Hamming

  Believe, Mathematics, Responsible

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• Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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• Our submission defines our authority

  Bradley Cooper

  Submission

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• Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.

  Alberto Manguel

  Library, Seems

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• When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.

  Steven J Lawson

  Intensity, Results

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• Unbelief is like gravity, it's always pulling down on the authority of Scripture.

  Mark Dever

  Scripture, Gravity, Pulling

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• I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority.

  A. C. Benson

  People

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• The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget.

  Leonard Boswell

  Jobs, Mean, Directors

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• That kind of skeptical, questioning, "don't accept what authority tells you" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other.

  Carl Sagan

  Attitude, Thinking, Democracies Have

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.

  Keith Waterhouse

  Process, Consultation

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• That's what lordship is - Christ reigning as supreme authority over our life. Making Jesus Lord of our life is not something passive. It's not a state of being, it's a state of doing. Those whom Jesus recognizes as His own are those who do the will of His Father in heaven.

  Keith Green

  Jesus, Father, Heaven

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