#authority

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. ↗

— Jon Meacham

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I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? ↗

— John Mellencamp

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I've always had trouble with authority. ↗

— John Milius

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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state. ↗

— Roy Moore

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The whole basis of the Constitution was a restriction of power, and the whole basis of the federalist system was that there was not one sovereign centralized power from which all authority flows. ↗

— Roy Moore

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In order to be a lieutenant, you've got to have authority in your voice. No matter how young your face looks, you've got to let your guys know that you're in charge. ↗

— Esai Morales

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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. ↗

— Jim Morrison

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I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

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I'll be on my third honeymoon, so I'm more of an authority than I care to be. ↗

— Alan Thicke

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