Authority Quotes - Page 9

• You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility.

  Byron Dorgan

  Responsibility, Delegation, Delegates

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• A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Kings, Sex, Rational

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 4 (1792)

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• Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.

  Federica Montseny

  Remains

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• For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Kings, Government, Over You

  Jonathan MAYHEW (1750). “A Discourse [on Rom. xiii. 1-8] concerning unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers: with some reflections on the resistance made to King Charles I., and on the anniversary of his death, etc”, p.55

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• I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Age, World, Remember

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• Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.

  Zebulon Pike

  Father, Over You, Former

  Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1966). “Journals, with Letters and Related Documents”

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• It is fundamentally important that Grasso resign so that the New York Stock Exchange can restore its moral authority.

  Phil Angelides

  New York, Important, Moral

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• The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

  Marie de France

  Fashion, Past, Stories

  Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.115, Xist Publishing

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• I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.

  Alan Thicke

  Care, Honeymoon, Thirds

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

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• It is manifestly vital to the success of the anti-slavery cause, that the authority and influence of proslavery, especially of slaveholding, ministers should be destroyed.

  Gerrit Smith

  Success, Slavery, Causes

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• If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.

  Keith Richards

  Feet, Teeth, Use

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Leadership, Responsibility, Psychology

  Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.8, HarperCollins

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• Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill, injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will.

  Gustave de Molinari

  Government, Guarantees That, People

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• The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

  Gloria Steinem

  Feminist, Skins, Citizens

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  If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, God, Country

  Remarks at a Dallas Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast, delivered 23 August 1984 at Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX

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• I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life, Cute, Believe

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.8, Bantam

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• When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

  Matt Groening

  Witty, Sex, Lessons To Be Learned

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• The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Ideas, Disrespect, Substitutes

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Government, World

  Moscow State University Address, delivered 31 May 1988, Moscow, Russia

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• Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Work

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Race, Government, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.253, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, Leadership, Business

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• Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Race, Elements, Humans

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.253, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  People, Resources, Needed

  Stanley Milgram (2017). “Obedience to Authority”, p.6, HarperCollins

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• For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

  Plutarch

  Wise, Men, People

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