Quotes on Authority

As for what it's against - the story is against those who pervert and misuse religion, or any other kind of doctrine with a holy book and a priesthood and an apparatus of power that wields unchallengeable authority, in order to dominate and suppress human freedoms.

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

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

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.

I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.

The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them.

Before all else, Protestantism is, in its very essence, an appeal from all other authority to the divine authority of Holy Scripture

When I say history is a matter of life and death, I mean this: If you really don't know history, you are a victim of whatever the authorities tell you. You have no way of checking up on them. You have no way of deciding whether there is any truth in what they are saying.

Arbitrary rules teach kids discipline: If every rule made sense, they wouldn't be learning respect for authority, they'd be learning logic.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.

Put away the book, the description, the tradition, the authority, and take the journey of self-discovery.

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.