Authority Quotes - Page 38

• The sovereignty of the state as the power that protects the individual and that defines the mutual relationships among the visible spheres, rises high above them by its right to command and compel. But within these spheres ... another authority rules, an authority that descends directly from God apart from the state. This authority the state does not confer but acknowledges.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Doe, Spheres, Individual

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• We understand hereby, that the family, the business, science, art and so forth are all social spheres, which do not owe their existence to the State, but obey a high authority within their own bosom; an authority which rules, by the grace of God, just as the sovereignty of the State does.

  Abraham Kuyper

  Art, Grace, Doe

  Abraham Kuyper (2007). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in.

  Sam Roberts

  Walks, Called By God

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• I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

  Alan Arkin

  Believe, Artist, Competition

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person.

  Swami Vivekananda

  If There Is A God, Needs, Facts

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Government, Liberty, Destruction

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• ...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

  Ron Paul

  Government, Evidence, Shows

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• Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Want, Can Do

  "'Freedom Is About Authority': Excerpts From Giuliani Speech on Crime". www.nytimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• The Laws of Nature are the Laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must not obstruct our obedience to Him from whose punishment they cannot protect us. All human constitutions which contradict His laws, we are in conscience bound to disobey.

  George Mason

  Law, Punishment, Earth

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• Guilt was the grease in which the wheels of the authority turned.

  Terry Pratchett

  Grease, Guilt, Wheels

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.63, Random House

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• There are four chief obstacles in grasping truth ... namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and the concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.

  Roger Bacon

  Ignorance, Prejudice, Four

  Roger Bacon (2016). “Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2”, p.4, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• I don't walk into a room with an authoritative stance. I tend to be a little more submissive, even though I think I have a certain amount of strength. So, it's tough for me to play authority without feeling uncomfortable.

  Kristin Kreuk

  Thinking, Play, Feelings

  "Kristin Kreuk Talks The CW’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, Receiving a Note from Linda Hamilton, SMALLVILLE and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 7, 2012.

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• As a director myself, you want to have colleagues and collaborators that respect your authority as the director. I'm very comfortable with that, and I've done a lot of work in second unit.

  Roman Coppola

  Directors, Done, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority.

  John Lennon

  School, People, Insulting

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more.

  John Lennon

  School, People, Giving

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.

  Jacques Ellul

  Mean, People, Democracy

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• Authority to heal is given from on high.

  Ernest Angley

  Given, Heal

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• Many in positions of authority lack the capabilities to truly lead. They are not credible. They do not command genuine respect. They are not committed to serve. They are not continually learning and growing. They are not wise.

  Peter Senge

  Wise, Growing, Genuine

  Debashis Chatterjee, Peter Senge (2012). “Leading Consciously”, p.12, Routledge

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• Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Dominion, Riches

  John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.389, Ravenio Books

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• Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

  Bertrand Russell

  Principles, Ethics, Virtue

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• I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have to do that and there are consequences when you don't. But I also think that there will be a box score, and there will be that one negative, and then there will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, People, Abuse

  "Transcript: President Bill Clinton's news conference", www.cnn.com. March 18, 1999.

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• Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.

  Albert Einstein

  Country, Government, Evil

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• To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated.

  John Holdren

  Country, Law, Growth

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• Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Thinking, Attention, Pay

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.320, Princeton University Press

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• As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it.

  Robert Heilbroner

  War, Anxiety, Political

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