Authority Quotes - Page 39

• A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

  Walter Lippmann

  Fall, Confusion, Democracy

  Walter Lippmann (1936). “Authority in the crisis”

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• We do not believe that if you cut back what government does you diminish its authority. On the contrary, a government that did less, and therefore did better, would strengthen its authority.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Cutting, Government

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

  Bill Cosby

  Giving, Proven

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• The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

  Bill Maher

  Generations, Machines, Rage

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.114, Rodale

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• Find ways to decentralize. Move decision making authority down and out. Encourage a more entrepreneurial approach.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Moving, Decision, Down And

  Donald Rumsfeld (2011). “Known and Unknown: A Memoir”, p.266, Penguin

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• Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Moving, Responsibility, Agency

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• What we must eliminate are systems of representation that carry with them the authority which has become repressive because it doesn't permit or make room for interventions on the part of those represented.

  Edward Said

  Rooms, Permit, Representation

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• For too long now, European football authorities have not taken the problem of racism in the game seriously and refuse to acknowledge how widespread the problem is.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Football, Taken, Games

  "Ferdinand told volley is off target" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2006.

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• His [John Paul II] humanity, combined with his extraordinary spiritual authority, was unlike anything I've ever met.

  Chris Matthews

  Spiritual, Humanity, John Paul Ii

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• There's been a lot of comparisons to "The Prisoner," and sometimes people take a negative tact on that, but to be really honest, I count that as a compliment, in the sense that what I felt "The Prisoner" was for the '60's, in how the individual triumphs over the state and authority, our show is really about how complacent we have become in our lives, which are scrutinized.

  Remi Aubuchon

  People, Triumph, Negative

  Source: collider.com

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• What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority.

  Doug Stanhope

  Teacher, School, Use

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• Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.

  Richard Sennett

  Imagination

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• [I]t is contrary to the economy of God for any member of the Church, or any one, to receive instruction for those in authority, higher than themselves . . . if any person have a vision or a visitation from a heavenly messenger, it must be for his own benefit and instruction; for the fundamental principles, government, and doctrine of the Church are vested in the keys of the kingdom.

  Sam Smith

  Keys, Government, Vision

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• We do not worship the Prophet. We worship God our Eternal Father and the risen Lord Jesus Christ. But we acknowledge the Prophet; we proclaim him; we respect him; we reverence him as an instrument in the hands of the Almighty in restoring to the earth the ancient truths of the divine gospel, together with the priesthood through which the authority of God is exercised in the affairs of His Church and for the blessing of His people.

  Sam Smith

  Jesus, Father, Blessing

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• Catholic Church reasserts its moral authority on contraception: If God believed in birth control, altar boys would have a uterus.

  Dana Gould

  Boys, Catholic, Church

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Feb 10, 2012

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• My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating with the family every day, listening to authority and going to church every week and having perfect attendance at Sunday school.

  Jonathan Groff

  Mother, Strong, School

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• The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the relationship of photography with death. Immobility and silence are not only two objective aspects of death, they are also its main symbols, they figure it.

  Christian Metz

  Photography, Two, Silence

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• I have always questioned everything: education, the obligation to memorize, authority. Perhaps that is why I have photographed everything.

  Pedro Meyer

  Obligation

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• The goal of human freedom is not in freedom itself, nor it is in man, but in God. By giving man freedom, God has yielded to man a piece of His Divine authority, but with the intention that man himself would voluntarily bring it as a sacrifice to God, a most perfect offering.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Sacrifice, Men, Offering

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• Words borrowed of Antiquity do lend a kind of Majesty to style, and are not without their delight sometimes. For they have the authority of years, and out of their intermission do win to themselves a kind of grace-like newness. But the eldest of the present, and newest of the past Language, is the best.

  Ben Jonson

  Winning, Past, Years

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3211, Delphi Classics

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• Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

  Antonio Negri

  Healthy, Natural, Disobedience

  Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri (2001). “Empire”, p.210, Harvard University Press

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• Saddam Hussein is a threat, but the threat is not so great that we must be stampeded to provide such authority to this president just weeks before an election.

  Robert Byrd

  President, Hussein, Election

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• The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

  Lord Acton

  Fate, Government, Hands

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• Question authority; think for yourself. Talk to people, do things unrelated to school - to come up with your own framework for living. The world is too complex and people are too different to be overly prescriptive about the details.

  Joichi Ito

  School, Thinking, People

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• I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Giving, Advice, Use

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

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