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" Quotes and Sayings About authority

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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Perhaps because there are those who believe that authority is all of a piece and that to challenge it anywhere is to threaten it everywhere.

Who believe That authority Challenge Threaten it
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Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Authority Wisdom Like Edge
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Public institutions represent our commonwealth and those in positions of authority in them do so in trust. Hence it must be treated as such.

Public institutions Represent Our commonwealth In positions
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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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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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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment not authority.

The ultimate Court Appeal Observation
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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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Remember that you are in charge! Use the authority that you have

In charge Authority Remember You
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what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

What Hear Voice Fury
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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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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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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

About Authority Could Done
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority

Authority Because Believed Made
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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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Distrust of authority should be the first civic duty.
Authority Civic Distrust Duty
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I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.

Authority Believe Disrespect Forms
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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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Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Authority is for Children and Servants; yet not without Sweetness.

Rule Love Authority Children
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Every leader needs to remember that a healthy respect for authority takes time to develop. It’s like building trust. You don’t instantly have trust, it has to be earned.

Leader Respect Authority Trust
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Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.

Freedom Conscience Authority
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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Being Virtuous Authority Reason
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The language of the devil is WICKEDNESS. Not grammar. So when you are dealing with him don’t be a gentle man. RESIST him forcefully With the authority that Christ has given you

The language The devil Is wickedness Not grammar
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Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

Dominion Heart God Authority
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In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

Theology Authority Philosophy Reason
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No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Man Natural Authority Fellow
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We work for peace every time we exercise authority with wisdom and authentic love.

Work Peace Wisdom Love
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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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We must continue to pray for the country, but those of us in positions of authority must do more than prayer. We must work.

To pray The country In positions Authority
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Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

Freedom Not possible Without authority Into chaos
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The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

The authority Who teach An obstacle To learn
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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Old age An honored Great authority More value
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Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Authority Work Prestige Distance
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How do we manifest the life of God when we are “keeping safe” with everyone else from a virus we have received the authority to heal.

Manifest The life God Keeping safe
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The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority.

People know Going on The easier Wield power
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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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Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Authority Following Honesty Integrity
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It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Authority Law Makes Wisdom
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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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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.

Authority Fame Figures Finally
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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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Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

Authority Much Nothing Silence
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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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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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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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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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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Any Authority Citizen Governing
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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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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Truth Authority Time Daughter
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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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