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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than those of any other author. -- Robert Benchley
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have. -- Orson Pratt
Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing. -- Michael Polanyi
A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority. -- Gary Hamel
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority. -- James Altucher
Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation. -- Leon Panetta
Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities. -- Steig Larsson
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is of no more authority than any other uninspired volume, how is it that the book is what it is? -- J. C. Ryle
I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the church, but I also have tremendous respect for my brothers and sisters in other Christian faiths. -- Marco Rubio
The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities. -- Judith Butler
To consider only one other such witness: the followers of the Buddha have at least as much right to appeal to individual and social experience in support of the authority of the Eastern saviour. -- William Kingdon Clifford
The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism. -- Benjamin Tucker
The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents. -- Barton Gellman
But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others. -- Vince McMahon
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 Acton
I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence. -- Anthony Bourdain
Among the other values children should be taught are respect for others, beginning with the child's own parents and family; respect for the symbols of faith and the patriotic beliefs of others; respect for law and order; respect for the property of others; respect for authority. -- James E. Faust
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. -- Jimmy Carter
I think that the president of Iran has the authority wherever which - where - wherever the national interests of the country are involved and, when it is necessary and expedient and required to speak and talk with others in order to promote the rights of its nation, that the president can take that initiative. -- Hassan Rouhani
With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past. -- Sean Brady
Authority leads through position. Influence builds others out of relationship. -- Johnny Hunt
Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary authorities to be found -- Bertrand Russell
There is great joy in leading with authority, which is serving others by meeting their legitimate needs. -- James Hunter
Do not give up your authority and follow blindly the will of others. This way will lead to only delusion. -- Gautama Buddha
Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want. -- William P. Young
Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me. -- Criss Jami
The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority. -- Juvenal
When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for authority, validation, and approval from others, we give our personal power away. -- Shakti Gawain
After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office. -- Augustus
No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others. -- Anthony Trollope
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources. -- Francesco Guicciardini
A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others. -- Jodi Picoult
If people base their identity on identifying with authority, freedom causes anxiety. They must then conceal the victim in themselves by resorting to violence against others. -- Arno Gruen
Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own. -- Thomas F. Wilson

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