My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product.

My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform.

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

I believe that all human beings are equal. I believe that no one has the right to authority over anyone else.

There's a lot of ignorance in our business... Everybody's an authority. To have your own vision is rewarding.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.

God, who prepares His work through ages, accomplishes it when the hour is come, with the feeblest instruments.

As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

It doesn't affect my authority if I change my stance on something. If I have to reconsider a decision, I will.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

One who lays claim to special privilege through the priesthood doesn't understand the nature of his authority.

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who can't clearly articulate why we're doing what we're doing.

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

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

When you're called by God, when He places that call upon your life, there is an authority you begin to walk in.

It's always interesting when you play a part and then suddenly people think you're an authority on the subject.

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

As things are brought back under Christ's rule and authority, they are restored to health, beauty, and freedom.

We vote for politicians with lower voices, it's true, because we associate depth with power and with authority.

We now have a satisfactory solution not only to coalition forces, but also to the Iraqi authorities themselves.

I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.

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

I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

The president doesn't have the authority to change the law or ignore the law, and that's what Obama tried to do.

When authority is total, so too is the madness of the man who declares it, and the potential for abuse of power.

I'm not a person who likes authority. I just love the fact that it's up to me, and I go straight to the audience.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

The authority you establish must emerge naturally from your character, from the particular strengths you possess.

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

I was always taught by punk to think for yourself and to question authority. That's what I've always tried to do.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

I can tell you with authority that when I'm exhausted, when I'm running on empty, I'm the worst version of myself.

The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

Everywhere in life people are in authority to make decisions and you have to abide by them, whether right or wrong.

The police represent the authority of the state, the willingness of the state to use violence to assert their will.

It's far from clear that restoring Christian social authority is an appropriate aim of politics in the first place.

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Most people are sort of against authority. Here's Beetle always challenging authority. I think people relate to it.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.

My team or I didn't enjoy any administrative authority in the creative role play for the Telugu version of 'Queen.'

I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me.

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