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The holder of authority is like the rider on a lion - he is envied for his position, but he well knows his position.
Lebanese freedom of speech : You get to say whatever you like as long as the authorities approve of it... Hilarious.
The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.
We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.
I would write a scientific paper with the devil, if it was on high temperatures. The fellow's probably an authority.
Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.
It is clear that IDEA '97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.
Adhere to the Truth rather than to the personality, and take to heart the Truth rather than the authority of another.
I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
I don't use 'always do this,' 'never say that' and I never give advice because I'm not the end-all, be-all authority.
The actions of those in power can have enormous consequences - a price that they themselves almost never have to pay.
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of moral authority.
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
A state that privatizes most of its functions will inevitably defend itself by employing its own people as mercenaries
'The Authority,' by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, really pioneered the widescreen, action-packed style of storytelling.
The United States stands willing to work with a transformed Palestinian Authority with new leaders coming to the front.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.
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?
To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.
Do what is right, and the reward will be immediate and multitudinous. Think what is right, and your authority will grow.
All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.
I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.
To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the maintenance of his opinion.
Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority.
I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.
The commander must establish personal and comradely contact with his men, but without giving away one inch of authority.
Crackdown, the video, interpreted and reflected a sense of authority and austerity and a sense of slight, impending doom.
When your family is twice as weird as normal, you have to be twice as polite to authority, because authority hates weird.
When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.
There is no reliable way for American authorities to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from peaceful Muslims.
We have to recognize that there is a Palestinian entity, that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority has to run their life.
I have it on good authority-from the roads department chief, Mr. Arpin-that it will not snow after the fifteenth of March.
Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
Becoming an authority in your industry can be a great way to promote your business and help you better serve your clients.
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
When we do in Grenada what the Soviet Union did in Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, we lose moral authority and credibility.
I don't know how we will ever have the moral authority to deal with social welfare if we can't deal with corporate welfare.
The disorder, uncertainty, and strife of a revolution make citizens yearn for stable authority, or they turn to radicalism.
Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
To defy the authority of empirical evidence is to disqualify oneself as someone worthy of critical engagement in a dialogue.
At school, I was a lot more advanced compared to the other kids but I didn't like authority and was kicked out for fighting.