Authority Quotes - Page 13

• I will never cede the authority of our country or our security to any other nation. I'll never give a veto over American security to any other entity - not a nation, not a country, not an institution.

  John F. Kerry

  Country, Giving, Institutions

  "Text Of Bush-Kerry Debate II (5)" by Jarrett Murphy, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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• Holy Scripture is the highest authority for every believer, the standard of faith and the foundation for reform.

  John Wycliffe

  Scripture, Foundation, Reform

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• Loyal and substansial Catholic service on the battlefield undermined one of the most longstanding objections to emancipation: namely, that since Catholics owed religious allegiance to a foreign authority in the person of the Pope, their political and patriotic allegiance must necessarily be suspect.

  Linda Colley

  Religious, Patriotic, Political

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• It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or consuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy, or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa, as we read was done in Rome.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Wisdom, Kings, Rome

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• Yes, I direct commercials as well. I get these really weird offers and then I have to bid on them and win the job. One offer that I have now, and I've already done this last year for the same company, is for Cash Value Cheese, this cheese out in the midwest. I did two spots for them last year and I'm going to probably do three this year. I also did some for the Utah Transit Authority, which was weird and interesting and they turned out really funny - they actually won an award.

  Andy Dick

  Jobs, Winning, Two

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• Men will see in their king or in their rulers men like themselves perhaps unworthy or open to criticism, but they will not on that account refuse obedience if they see reflected in them the authority of Christ, God and Man. Peace and harmony, too, will result; for with the spread and the universal extension of the kingdom of Christ, men will become more and more conscious of the link that binds them together, and thus many conflicts will either be prevented entirely or at least their bitterness be diminished.

  Pope Pius XI

  Wisdom, Kings, Men

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• It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.

  Dan Barker

  Prayer, Thinking, Government

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• If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.

  Barbara Walters

  Men, Literature, Aggressive

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• In a discussion of this kind our interest should be centered not on the weight of the authority but on the weight of the argument. Indeed the authority of those who set out to teach is often an impediment to those who wish to learn. They cease to use their own judgment and regard as gospel whatever is put forward by their chosen teacher.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Teacher, Wish, Atheism

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• In fact, it is because the nature of prayer is so personal and can have such a powerful effect on a community that the government may not use its authority to try to influence an individual's decision on whether and when to pray.

  Barbara Brandriff Crabb

  Prayer, Powerful, Government

  "Judge who struck down National Day of Prayer in an uncomfortable place: the spotlight". www.foxnews.com. May 5, 2010.

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• Existentialist philosophy recognizes the existence of the individual as the real purpose of human life. The recognition is basically atheistic and it encourages the individual to free himself from the impositions of custom, governmental authority, economic pressures, and cultural inhibitions.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Philosophy, Real, Atheism

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• You can always speak with great authority on how well you played today, but never on how you'll play tomorrow.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Play, Today

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• In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.

  Johannes Kepler

  Philosophy, Atheism, Reason

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• A major function of fundamentalist religion is to bolster deeply insecure and fearful people. This is done by justifying a way of life with all of its defining prejudices. It thereby provides an appropriate and legitimate outlet for one's anger. The authority of an inerrant Bible that can be readily quoted to buttress this point of view becomes an essential ingredient to such a life. When that Bible is challenged, or relativized, the resulting anger proves the point categorically.

  John Shelby Spong

  Insecure, Fundamentalist Religion, Views

  John Shelby Spong (2009). “Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethinks this Meaning of Script”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• At the beginning of this year also, I called upon the North Korean side to open dialog between the responsible authorities of the South and the North at any place, at any time, and at any level, in order to prevent a recurrence of war and to cooperate to speed up the peaceful unification of our fatherland. However, no sincere response has yet been made by North Korea.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Usa, Order

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

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• Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Character, Atheism

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.365, Vintage

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• There is a great deal of quarrelling in the houses, and contending for power and authority; and the second wife is against the first wife, perhaps, in some instances.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Wife, House, Firsts

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• I will not be influenced, governed, or controlled, in my temporal interests by any ecclesiastical authority or pretended revelation whatever, contrary to my own judgment.

  Oliver Cowdery

  Judgment, Revelations, Interest

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• True leadership is moral authority, not formal authority. Leadership is a choice, not a position. The choice is to follow universal timeless principles, which will build trust and respect from the entire organization. Those with formal authority alone will lose this trust and respect.

  Stephen Covey

  Organization, Choices, Principles

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

  Stephen Covey

  Moral, Management, Given

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Certainly we do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas: first, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it, whether it be said or sung in Latin or in English; and, secondly, because we find no Scriptural warrant whatever for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior; and, consequently, its observance is a superstition, because not of divine authority.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Latin, Believe, Superstitions

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• When it can be proved that the observance of Christmas, Whitsuntide, and other Popish festivals was ever instituted by a divine statute, we also will attend to them, but not till then. It is as much our duty to reject the traditions of men, as to observe the ordinances of the Lord. We ask concerning every rite and rubric, "Is this a law of the God of Jacob?" and if it be not clearly so, it is of no authority with us, who walk in Christian liberty.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Law

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1870). “The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms”, p.350, Kregel Academic

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• Always question the authority.

  Tom Morello

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• Self-trust is the first secret of success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the universe put you here, and for cause, or with some task strictly appointed you in your constitution, and so long as you work at that you are well and successful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Successful, Self, Long

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin

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• One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

  Carl Sagan

  Argument, Primates, Mistrust

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.52, Ballantine Books

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