#authority

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

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In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. ↗

— Max de Pree

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Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world. ↗

— Robert Reich

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The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection. ↗

— Elihu Root

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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice. ↗

— John Stott

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Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. ↗

— Matthew Green

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Historically, America has answered to a higher authority. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

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Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. ↗

— John White Geary

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