Authority Quotes - Page 37

• It is scripture alone, not conservative Evangelical tradition or any other human authority, that must function as the normative authority for the definition of what we should believe. The authority of the scripture means that all the words in scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

  Wayne Grudem

  Believe, Mean, Way

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• It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.

  Albert Einstein

  Fate, Youth

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• Liberalism is really piecemeal socialism, and socialism always attacks three basic social institutions: religion, the family, and private property. Religion, because it offers a rival authority to the state; the family, because it means a rival loyalty to the state; and property, because it means material independence of the state.

  Joseph Sobran

  Loyalty, Mean, Independence

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• It is certain that many intellectuals envy the higher income of prosperous businessmen and that these feelings drive them toward socialism. They believe that the authorities of a socialist commonwealth would pay them higher salaries than those that they earn under capitalism.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Believe, Envy, Feelings

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• My father, Benjamin Shiller, told me not to believe in authorities or celebrities - that society tends to imagine them as superhuman. It's good advice. People are snowed by celebrities all the time. In academia people have this idea of achieving stardom - publishing in the best journals, being at the best university, writing on the hot topic everyone else is writing about. But that's what my father told me not to do. He taught me that you have to pursue things that sound right to you.

  Robert J. Shiller

  Father, Believe, Writing

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• I remain interested in the potential of art, except I've always been more struck by applied modernism than high modernism. It's partly because of feminist theory and being brought up in the '70s, with questioning who is speaking, and why, and what authority they're carrying.

  Liam Gillick

  Art, Feminist, Theory

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security, the authority that we've given Democratic and Republican presidents, all have contributed to a fraying of the fabric of our democratic republic.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Thinking, Names, President

  Source: collider.com

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• My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

  Noam Chomsky

  Use, Want, Violence

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• It's symbolic of how I feel, with cameras on every street corner. Being watched all the time, having my sense of freedom invaded. Privacy is an important thing, and it has been eroded over the past few years. Now they're talking about body scans at airports. Democracy becomes a sham the second you have to give way to authorities who can do any kind of search that they want with you.

  Nitin Sawhney

  Past, Talking, Years

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• Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003, Hussein and his regime were brought down, we declared "Mission Accomplished" and celebrated victory . . . and chaos erupted. We did not assert control and authority over the country, especially Baghdad. We did not bring with us the capacity to impose our will. We did not take charge. And Iraq did not in a few weeks magically transform itself into a stable nation with democratic leaders. Instead a raging insurgency engulfed the country.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Iraq, Leader

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• A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

  Law, Land, Doe

  Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1979). “If I am assassinated ...”, Advent Books Division Inc

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• The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.

  Alex Johnston

  Artist, Names, People

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• No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the unimaginable, the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.

  Gene Wolfe

  Dream, Children, War

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.110, Orb Books

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• When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Development, Ends, Concerned

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• Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority.

  Max Anders

  Scope, Should

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• We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.

  Steven J Lawson

  Scripture

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• College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

  Stephen Graham

  College, People, Rebel

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• The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Desire, Libertarian

  "Reason" Magazine, July 1, 1975.

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• Stick me in a confessional and ask the question: Sir, if you had the authority, would you forbid smoking in America? You'd get a solemn and contrite, Yes.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  America, Smoking, Sticks

  "You Live With It" by William F. Buckley, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 1, 2007.

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• In all teaching there must be a fusion of authority as an adult providing a stable framework for the children in one's care, and humility as another human being ready to educate an equal who may turn out to be a superior.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Children, Teaching, Humility

  Yehudi Menuhin (1977). “Unfinished Journey”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• 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.

  Gail Simmons

  Writing, Knowing, Way

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• Sacred scripture is of course the basic authority for everything; yet I sometimes run across ancient sayings or pagan writings - even the poets - so purely and reverently and admirably expressed that I can't help believing the author's hearts were moved by some divine power. And perhaps the spirit of Christ is more widespread than we understand, and the company of the saints includes many not on our calendar.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Running, Believe, Writing

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “The Colloquies of Erasmus”, Chicago, 1965- .

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• [Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which belongs to your duty as parents...All those who would advantageously rule over others, must as an essential element, first dominate themselves, their passions, their impressions.

  Pope Pius XII

  Encouragement, Kindness, Struggle

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• The United States recognizes the provisional government as the de facto authority of the new State of Israel.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Israel, United States

  Statement, 14 May 1948

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ must be the bad news of the conviction of sin before it can be the Good News of redemption. The truth is revealed in God's Holy Word; life can be lived only in absolute and disciplined submission to its authority.

  Charles Colson

  Jesus, News, Redemption

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