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I've always had a problem with authority. I just can't wear a suit - it would kill me.
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be?
We do not sit in authority over the Scripture, the Scripture sits in authority over us.
Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates.
In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
There's no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.
Everywhere, authority and tradition have to justify themselves in the face of questions.
As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.
A precedent provides legal authority for an action precisely because it occurred before.
Mayors do not have that authority to pick and choose what laws they're going to enforce.
Until we stand in a place where we have met God, we have no authority to change a Nation
It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.
I don't have any authority over Linux other than this notion that I know what I'm doing.
Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.
Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.
We live in cautious times where HR has a very inflated sense of authority over companies.
It is no bad thing to be a king-to see one's house enriched and one's authority enhanced.
I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.
Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.
I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
It is my fate to be considered an authority, since I spent my youth rebelling against it.
Science as such assuredly has no authority, for she can only say what is, not what is not.
No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.
I want to always be viewed by my readers as a friend and not as an authority or an expert.
I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet.
Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.
[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
Existing libraries, in their very being, seem to question the authority of those in power.
If you have no authority to legislate my freedoms, then I'm truly free, at least from you.
Few things are more laughably pitiable than authority once it has been successfully defied.
Authority does not equal competency. Pass decisions down to those who can best handle them.
Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.
I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
When anyone becomes an authority, that is the end of him as far as development is concerned.
I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.
You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
It is a lifelong choice to deliberately and habitually bring ourselves under God’s authority.
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
The truth is, if we don't learn to submit to authority, we won't ever learn to submit to God.