#authority

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions. ↗

— Elena Kagan

#assertion #authority #clinton #constitutional #directive

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

#branches #character #either #executive #general

How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority. ↗

— Neal Boortz

#believe #catholic #catholic schools #challenge #christ

Authority figures are so irritating. Because they always tell you to do things for reasons that aren't very good. That sums up what authority is about for me. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#always #authority #authority figures #because #figures

Of course the UN brings in a lot of moral authority. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#brings #course #lot #moral #moral authority

This means that the search for a formula of European cooperation in connection with the League of Nations, far from weakening the authority of this latter must and can only tend to strengthen it, for it is closely connected with its aims. ↗

— Aristide Briand

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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

#because #just #just because #own #people

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

#authority #buddha #consider #eastern #experience

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#anybody #authority #believe #better #else

Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#conscience #dangers #despotism #entails #freedom