I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

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.

I call religion a natural authority but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Oddly I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet I never had a problem with my father.

When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness looking instead for authority validation and approval from others we give our personal power away.

Because power corrupts society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it. People need somebody to watch over them. Ninety-five percent of the people in the world need to be told what to do and how to behave.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form and that it's timeless that it reaches back.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism and find criticism subversive.

Ninety percent of the students take the 'preferred lender.' Why? Because that's the nature of the relationship. You trust the school. The school is in a position of authority.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

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.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Money has transformed every watchdog every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

The problem for those who assert biblical authority in support of traditional definitions of marriage is that one could with equal validity assert that the lending of money or certain kinds of haircuts are forbidden by God or that slavery and the subjugation of women are authorized by the Lord.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

I am certainly not an authority on love because there are no authorities on love just those who've had luck with it and those who haven't.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance self-denial hard work sacrifice dedication and respect for authority.

God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.