Authority Quotes - Page 18

• Anyone who knows anything about journalism knows that reporters are rarely in a position to investigate anything. They lack the authority to subpoena witnesses, to cross-examine, to scrutinize official records. They are lucky to get their phone calls returned.

  Irving Kristol

  Phones, Media, Lucky

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• Humans have will. In an exorcism with a human, you are dealing with the human will, and whether that will is sufficiently resolved in terms of what allowed it to be manipulated. The will must have done something to surrender to the presence of the demon. You have to resurrect the moral authority of the person's will.

  Bob Larson

  Done, Exorcism, Moral

  "EXCLUSIVE: Exorcist Reverend Bob Larson Talks The Devil Inside". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 04, 2012.

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• Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do.

  Bob Larson

  People, Devil, Satan

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Some sort of belief in all-powerful supernatural beings is common, if not universal. A tendency to obey authority, perhaps especially in children, a tendency to believe what you're told, a tendency to fear your own death, a tendency to wish to see your loved ones who have died, to wish to see them again, a wish to understand where you came from, where the world came from, all these psychological predispositions, under the right cultural conditions, tend to lead to people believing in things for which there is no evidence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Powerful, Believe

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

  Jimmy Carter

  Believe, Eye, Men

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly unarm, and force in to helplessness, American citizens.

  Ted Nugent

  America, People, Citizens

  Source: gawker.com

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• Nobody should ever mistake and think that our country [USA] is weakened, or that authority is diffuse and unspecified, and that we are vulnerable.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Country, Mistake, Thinking

  "GPS November 2, 2008: Interviews with Michael Bloomberg and Madeleine Albright". Interview with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• Nobody wants a job where they don't have authority to go along with the responsibility. Quite the contrary. The more authority you give people, the better people you can attract, and the harder they're going to work, and the more loyal they are going to be.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Responsibility, People

  Interview with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• Israel can make peace with an organization that seeks its destruction. That's Hamas. But Israel can make peace with the Palestinian Authority. It requires a lot of courage from both sides including President Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Organization, President

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand.

  Meryl Streep

  People, Sometimes, Easier

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think a way to behave is to think not in terms of representative government, not in terms of voting, not in terms of electoral politics, but thinking in terms of organizing social movements, organizing in the work place, organizing in the neighborhood, organizing collectives that can become strong enough to eventually take over - first to become strong enough to resist what has been done to them by authority, and second, later, to become strong enough to actually take over the institutions.

  Howard Zinn

  Strong, Thinking, Government

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist ideas in their thinking and in their literature. They were all suspicious of authority. We might say that the Transcendentalism played a role in creating an atmosphere of skepticism towards authority, towards government.

  Howard Zinn

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• No doubt that anarchist ideas are frightening to those in power. People in power can tolerate liberal ideas. They can tolerate ideas that call for reforms, but they cannot tolerate the idea that there will be no state, no central authority. So it is very important for them to ridicule the idea of anarchism to create this impression of anarchism as violent and chaotic. It is useful for them.

  Howard Zinn

  Ideas, People, Doubt

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• We need to organize ourselves and protest against existing order - against war, against economic and sexual exploitation, against racism, etc. But to organize ourselves in such a way that means correspond to the ends, and to organize ourselves in such a way as to create kind of human relationship that should exist in future society. That would mean to organize ourselves without centralize authority, without charismatic leader, in a way that represents in miniature the ideal of the future egalitarian society.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Mean, Order

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• Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.

  Charles Hodge

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Prayer

  Charles Hodge (1874). “Soteriology, eschatology”, p.692

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• Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

  Jill Abramson

  Voice, Want

  "Jill Abramson: 'I'm a battle-scarred veteran'". Interview with Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2011.

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• We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.

  Noah Feldman

  Struggle, Thinking, Umpires

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• [Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power.

  Chuck Smith

  Authority And Power, People, Satan

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• If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.

  Steve Winwood

  Mistake, Bars, Drummer

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• Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. Thats democracy.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  People, Political, Voting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.

  Eric Ludy

  Jesus, Names, Heaven

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• Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

  Steig Larsson

  Rights, Years, Police

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• There are no term limits on His reign. He has always been King and He always will be King. There is no death that threatens the perpetuity of His sovereign authority. There is no usurping of power by a lesser rival to His throne. There are no coups, no revolutions (at least, none that succeed). There is no threat of impeachment. He is a King who rules eternally.

  Sam Storms

  Kings, Reign, Limits

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• I think that Canadians have an incredible reverence for authority and regard for authority, and I think one of the healthy ways that it's challenged is through questioning it, through the polite hostility of comedy.

  Lorne Michaels

  Thinking, Healthy, Way

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• I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.

  Maria Semple

  Jobs, Writing, Thinking

  "'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' author Maria Semple talks about her new book". Interview with Molly Driscoll, www.csmonitor.com. Ocotber 3, 2012.

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