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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. -- Laozi
My problem has always been with authority, and I'm sure if anybody understands that, it's people in uniform. -- Lewis Black
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones. -- Bill Forsyth
To handle the economy and services in a country like Iraq requires delegation of authority and the choice of competent people. -- Ahmed Chalabi
One day, people in China may be able to see the records of conversations between multinational tech companies and the Chinese authorities. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it. -- Steve Chabot
The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself. -- Linda Hunt
The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with authority either in the legislative, executive, or judicial branches. -- John Witherspoon
You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work. -- Wayne Huizenga
I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy. -- Robert Redford
You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I'm obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment. -- Brian Eno
In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses, and every refusal to act excites their contempt. -- John Reed
It's also natural in that part of the world to blame what people view as the... as the most important authority in the region, and that currently is the United States of America. -- John Abizaid
The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in Kilnacrott and his Religious Superiors in the Norbertine Order. -- Sean Brady
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
So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. -- Charles Hodge
Intermediary liability enables the Chinese authorities to minimize the number of people they need to put in jail in order to stay in power and to maximize their control over what the Chinese people know and don't know. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
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. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
It's up to us, the people, to break immoral laws, and resist. As soon as the leaders of a country lie to you, they have no authority over you. These maniacs have no authority over us. And they might be able to put our bodies in prison, but they can't put our spirits in prison. -- Cindy Sheehan
The People adore authority. -- Charles Baudelaire
All authority comes from the people. -- Michael Davies
All authority belongs to the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
Laws that oppress people have no moral authority -- Richard Stallman
The ultimate authority ... resides in the people alone. -- James Madison
Power people are generally threatened by authority people... -- James Hunter
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people. -- Thomas Jefferson
All lawful authority, legislative, and executive, originates from the people. -- James Burgh
Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you. -- Rob Payne
Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority. -- Stanley Milgram
Some people represent authority without ever possessing any of their own. -- Banksy
People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority. -- Linda Hunt
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect. -- George Bancroft
I don't like authority, at least I don't like other people's authority. -- A. C. Benson
The foundation of authority is based upon the consent of the people. -- Thomas Hooker
Surround yourself with great people; delegate authority; get out of the way -- Ronald Reagan
People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures. -- Martha Beck
I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people. -- V. S. Naipaul
People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority. -- David Foster Wallace
I'm not wild about accepting responsibility without authority. Why should my people be? -- Wilbur L. Creech
The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution. -- James Madison
[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power. -- Chuck Smith
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government... -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people. -- Roger Williams
I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great. -- Jimmy Wales
The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes. -- Laozi
Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect. -- Stephen Covey
Most people are fools, most authority is malignant, God does not exist, and everything is wrong. -- Ted Nelson
Authority: The skill of getting people to willingly do your will, because of your personal influence. -- James Hunter
System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability. -- Amit Kalantri
When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority. -- Criss Jami
Giving people like Dodd and Frank more authority is like rewarding an arsonist with gasoline and matches. -- Daniel J. Mitchell
Having authority implies accountability. If you reject the blame for failures under your watch, people reject your leadership. -- Rick Warren
Sometimes it's easier for people who are in authority to be authoritarian, because people know where you stand. -- Meryl Streep
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority. -- William Butler Yeats
I had to delegate authority to the people on my staff. That means you shave away the hierarchy. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. -- George Carlin
The pressure to conform to an authority figure or peer group can cause people to behave in shocking ways. -- Mike Lofgren
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority. -- Prince Charles
Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using. -- Jack Campbell
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do. -- Stephen Graham
It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned. -- Daniel Ellsberg
The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat. -- Ralph Fiennes
This open resistance to [Parliament's] authority can only have found place among the lower and more ignorant of the people. -- Henry Seymour Conway
Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do. -- Auliq Ice
In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own. -- Virginia Postrel
You need those people to also have power and authority, and in a way that has been the story of my career. -- Alden Ehrenreich
No one can estimate the power of authority among poor and uneducated people in a world whose problems confuse even the wisest. -- Joyce Cary
Freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. -- Rudy Giuliani
I am convinced that people are open to the Christian message if it is seasoned with authority and proclaimed as God's own Word. -- Billy Graham
I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. -- Susan Cain
I think the Supreme Court does have the authority, which is not used, to declare a blanket right for all people, all adults. -- Jack Kevorkian
I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority. -- John Lennon
Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. -- Charles Fort
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. -- Alan Moore
He sighed. It had come to this. He was a responsible authority, and people could use terms like "core values" at him with impunity. -- Terry Pratchett
I am not going to use the federal government's authority deliberately to circumvent the natural inclination of people to live in ethnic homogeneous neighborhoods. -- Jimmy Carter
We believe that the people are the source of all governmental power; that the authority of the people is to be extended, not restricted. -- Barbara Jordan
There was a good moment in Islam when people were actually challenging authority at every level. Very different from the world we live in. -- Tariq Ali
The only people I have ever seen paint successfully, consistently, with great authority, unselfconsciously and without fear of failing were about four years old. -- Brian Johnson
Creativity is an area in which younger people have a tremendous advantage, since they have an endearing habit of always questioning past wisdom and authority. -- William Redington Hewlett
We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise. -- Mitchell Baker
Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth. -- Winston Churchill
Authority confined in you does not make you a leader. It is the authority created by you that makes you influence people with your purpose. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution. -- Ronald Reagan
Satan is always looking for legal right and authority to torment and attack people. Whatever he has the right to do, the devil will do. -- Bob Larson
If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way. -- Randy Lerner
I came away with the idea that respect is really the solution. We need to teach young people to respect authority - particularly, respect the law. -- Benjamin Carson
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
Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out. -- Ronald Reagan
Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment. -- Alan Watts
The fundamental force behind the Second Amendment is to empower the people and give them the greatest measure of authority over the tyranny of runaway government. -- Bob Schaffer
[T]he people as ultimate sovereigns, retain the ultimate power - and even the duty - to overthrow any government that fails to respect their authority. -- Glenn Reynolds
Young people - there's been very little places in positions of authority in law enforcement for young people's skill sets, but the truth is we need them. -- Patricia Arquette
If you care about other people, you might try to organize to undermine power and authority. That's not going to happen if you care only about yourself. -- Noam Chomsky
The P.L.O., and later the Palestinian Authority, never truly accepted that Israel, as the national state and homeland of the Jewish people, was here to stay. -- Danny Danon
The great majority of people have a strong need for authority which they can admire, to which they can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats them. -- Sigmund Freud
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority. -- George Bancroft
We can either have a free Parliament or a free people. Personal freedom requires that all authority is restrained by long-run principles which the opinion of the people approves. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
The whole philosophy of modern times is to dissolve distinctions between individuals and deal with them as large collections of people. It's essentially self-interested on the part of authority. -- Tom Stoppard
John Frame's magnificent work on the Christian life fully endorses the authority of Scripture and practically addresses the need to consider the situations and people involved in ethical decisions. -- Richard L. Pratt, Jr.

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