Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
The License Raj in India was a time when, to set up an industry, you needed a license. Which made the government an omnipresent and sort of all-pervasive authority.
There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God.
Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation.
There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.
The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.
Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
The Church, during the apostolic age, did not consist of isolated, independent congregations, but was one body, of which the separate churches were constituent members, each subject to all the rest, or to an authority which extended over all.
Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
I was overwhelmed by so many interviewers and then messages of congratulations. So many congratulation messages. I feel this shows the authority and the greatness of the Nobel Prize.
I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain?
The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.
Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.
They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.
Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority.
I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.
If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
Don't name it, as they say, because instantly you offer it to this peculiar authority.
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.
I'm the Princess of The Authority.
I am a liberated woman. And I do believe if a woman does equal work she should be paid equal money. But personally I am feminine and I do like male authority to lean on.
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy.
I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people may like or dislike, and people who physically impose themselves on children or misuse their authority to impose on children.
I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.
The Hamas organization is unwilling to honor the obligations that the Palestinian Authority has signed.
