Authority sayings

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◆ Definition of Trust: Giving someone the authority to destroy you completely, but having the confidence that they would never do it.

- Ritu Ghatourey99

◆ What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in decision-making... Involving the adolescent in decisions doesn't mean that you are giving up your authority. It means acknowledging that the teenager is growing up and has the right to participate in decisions that affect his or her life.

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◆ I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.

- Julia Ward Howe99

◆ Authority is like soap, the more you use it the less you will have of it.

- Mark Dever99

◆ The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

- Bill Maher99

◆ Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.

- Derrick Jensen99

◆ It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

- Thomas Hobbes99

◆ I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.

- Dame Edith Sitwell99

◆ The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the publics general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy and powerful multinational corporations, members of Congress, the current Presidential Administration including the administrations that preceded it. The news media is being utilized as a political tool of suppression and propaganda by those in power, and propaganda is psychological in nature. Full of half-truths and utter misinformation, its an arrogant and very commercial strategy that is implemented because it appeals to emotions, fear being the main one relentless talk of national security, personal and community safety, can trigger childhood insecurities and indoctrinated views of authority.

- Teresa Stover99

◆ [I]f we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us, that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.

- Daniel Webster99

◆ The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas

- Frank Lloyd Wright99

◆ If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

- Bill Gates99

◆ Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

- Peter F Drucker99

◆ You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.

- Stephen W Comiskey99

◆ The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero99