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Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. Vita Sackville-West

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.

Thomas Aquinas

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

Marie de France

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

Morris Raphael Cohen

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.

Andrew Greeley

The wisest have the most authority.

Plato

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

Hugh Lofting

I just remember that pivotal moment when you're a young adult, and you realize that these authority figures are human beings, too, and they're figuring out their lives just as you are, and they're flawed.

Gia Coppola

The Palestinian Authority refuses on an ongoing basis to take the necessary steps to prevent terrorists from getting into Israel.

David Baker

I rebelled against all form of authority, against my grandfather, my step-father, the Church, the police, the government, the bosses. Everything male that was there, and was determining my life.

Isabel Allende

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Mahmoud Abbas

I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.

J. K. Simmons

Obama's great asset has always been an ability to maintain his air of authority without being baritone about it. He can be boring, but he is never ridiculous or pompous.

Tina Brown

A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.

Thomas Szasz

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

Paul Weyrich

There are some classified documents there that we received from the CIA. Our arrangement with the CIA was that we could by mutual agreement declassify these documents, but we had no authority to unilaterally declassify them.

Louis Stokes

How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority.

Neal Boortz

Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies and human authority was legitimised by humanist ideologies, so high-tech gurus and Silicon Valley prophets are creating a new universal narrative that legitimises the authority of algorithms and Big Data.

Yuval Noah Harari

In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.

Kim Young-sam

The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

Denis Diderot

Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority.

John Polanyi

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway

But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

Allen Tate

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

Moon Unit Zappa

Authority is not a quality one person 'has', in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him.

Erich Fromm

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Oscar Wilde

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Bryant H. McGill

Many critics of the Palestinians, especially those in Congress, think the current calm is merely the eye of the storm. That's why the House of Representatives approved a foreign aid package last week that forbade the direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority .

Suzanne Fields

I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

Hal Holbrook

And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.

Sibel Edmonds

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Aeschylus

I obviously identify with the anti-authority figure. I've pretty much always had problems with authority, ever since I was a kid. But, yeah, it's not identifying, I think it's more a part of my natural DNA that I question anybody who has a plan. Everybody's got to have an angle; that's the way I grew up.

Denis Leary

We'll have a public power authority, which will also have the ability to build power or finance power. And more importantly, we'll have more power than our economy provides. All of that will give us leverage we don't have today.

Gray Davis

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.

Lee Haney

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

John Dalberg-Acton

Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.

John Winthrop