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" Quotes and Sayings About authority

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Respect The Enemy Truth
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Peace comes in situations completely surrendered to the sovereign authority of Christ.

Sovereign Authority Peace Situation
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All my authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

Authority Earth Given Heaven
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I think I’m a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it’s authority that I respect.

Leader Born Authority Natural
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I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Analyst Authority Believe Event
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth Authority Time Daughter
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Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Allowing Authority Conflicting Force
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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Any Authority Citizen Governing
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In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

Authority Humble Individual Questions
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

Answer Authority Bound Consider
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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Authority Bold Every Fearing
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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.

Authority Cause First Intention
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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Authority Much Nothing Silence
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Anyone Appealing Argument Authority
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Fame doesn't redeem you. It takes a long time to get there, and when you're finally there, you realise you still have authority figures telling you what to do.

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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.

Authority Because Eat Hungry
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Authority Law Makes Wisdom
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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Authority Following Honesty Integrity
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What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Answered Authority Clarity Dr
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Authority Borrowed Death Everything
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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.

Authority Being Best Carried
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For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Authority Cause Conditions Just
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Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character.

Authority Character Foundation Lawful
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I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.

Authority Believe Just Many
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Relationships are negotiated and if you deal with ultimatums and authority all the time, then you're not going to get anywhere.

Anywhere Authority Deal Get
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There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.

Authority Like Moral Moral Authority
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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
Authority Feel ICan Many
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Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Authority Poisons Takes
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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.

Regime Bunker Highest Law
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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Authority Dedication Football Hard
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I really rebel against authority.

Against Authority Really Rebel
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In most of Pakistan it is a feudal country. People are very scared and oppressed by authority. But when you move to these wilder areas, they are not so easily suppressed.

Area Authority Country Easily
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As a married woman, you are under the authority of your husband. You are not a slave, but make sure you honour, befriend him and perform your marital roles so there won’t be any crisis.

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I harbored a lot of resentment as a teenager and as a young adult. I still have a problem with authority, I'm trying to listen!
Adult Authority Listen Lot
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I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults.

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If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
Authority Both Feet Going
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Reid Hoffman Quotes As a candidate, Trump could make outlandish statements with little regard for their Constitutional implications. As President, he is pledged to respect the Constitution's authority, and the specific rights and protections it guarantees to every American citizen.

American American Citizen Authority Candidate
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Authority Believe Disrespect Forms
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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Authority Civic Distrust Duty
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When you have powerful voices with moral authority, if they put issues in the right place at the right time, then the world will listen – and do something about it.

Powerful voice Authority World
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority

Authority Because Believed Made
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One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never

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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.

Atheists Authority Automatically Beliefs
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A feeling for equal rights for other human beings cannot exist in adults if a feeling for authority is not implanted in them during childhood. Otherwise, adults will never become mature enough to recognize the rights of others.

Adult Authority Become Beings
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For, while the authority of the doctor or plumber is never questioned, everyone deems himself a good judge and an adequate arbiter of what a work of art should be and how it should be done.

Authority Doctor Plumber Never questioned
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Remember that you are in charge! Use the authority that you have

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To stop community clashes, it's about deal making. Both sides want something. Someone has to step in, and give both sides what they want. An authority figure has to make the 'warlords' feel like they matter and they are heard.

Stop Community clashes Deal making Both sides
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment not authority.

The ultimate Court Appeal Observation
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Overcoming authoritarianism starts with recognizing it. The attitude that those in authority are to be respected to the point of not daring to question their behavior, even when it involves wrong-doing, needs to be changed.

Overcoming authoritarianism Recognizing it The attitude Authority
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What is this thing we call government? Is it anything but organized violence? The law orders you to obey, and if you don't obey, it will compel you by force - all governments, all law and authority finally rest on force and violence, on punishment or fear of punishment.

Organized violence Laws orders Obey Compel you
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